Fern's Heartbreaking Handmade Autograph Album Chesapeake bay decoy eyebrows merging into nose and

eyebrows merging into nose and then great little pursed mouth with upturned corners

a perfect gift for a front-line doctor or nurse or care-giver

These signed pieces date to sometime between the 17th and 19th century

My guess is that I'll find out after I've sold them that their maker is quite well known

I found it at a terrific estate sale in Concord

Fern's Heartbreaking Handmade Autograph Album Chesapeake bay decoy eyebrows merging into nose andI can't help to invent whole stories about things like this, and this one both warms and breaks my heart. I can't quite tell from the cover whether this belonged to Fern, or Fern was the name of her school, or her name was D. Fern at any rate, certainly some young girl, perhaps in absence of a fancier option, determined to make her own autograph book, presumably to capture the signatures of her school friends. She filled each and every page with a