Calender, 1856, Dramatically Inked Fraktur Bookplate sculptural blocks Later 19th c

Later 19th c

I believe this is American

with brass chains connecting lid to base

making the image all the moodier

Plus the bright blue eye on the fish

Calender, 1856, Dramatically Inked Fraktur Bookplate sculptural blocks Later 19th cI'm very tempted to get this one in a simple frame and keep it for myself forever possessing a drama and gravitas that far exceeds it scale, and feeling as if it holds all of the weight of time and its passage in those very heavily black inked letters, which have burned through the paper here and there. The bookplate of a Christina Kern, 1856, found in Pennsylvania.(Love that lonely comma after the 1856, too.) And note the spelling of Calender with an