Leaf Studies, Rebecca Pillsbury's 1847 Notebook of Ink-stamped and Labeled Specimens, Nashville, NH flat back cookie cutter I presume it is a

I presume it is a mother hidden somewhere there under this wide and ambling drape of cloth--an unusual expanse as far as I've seen

terminating in the suggestion of a head near the base

which seems to have retained all of pennies over the years

I don't know enough about shoe or boot construction to read this as a pattern

so easy to take down and also to show both ways

Leaf Studies, Rebecca Pillsbury's 1847 Notebook of Ink-stamped and Labeled Specimens, Nashville, NH flat back cookie cutter I presume it is aI was really excited to find this, purchased from a seller in New Hampshire, not far from where it was created close to two centuries ago, in the no longer extant town of Nashville, NH. The work of a Rebecca Pillsbury, inscribed on the front inside cover along with the date, it features fourteen neatly composed pages of ink stamped leaves (sometime looking a lot like graphite rubbings, but I am pretty certain all pressed in ink), with each of the leaf