Of a Different Ilk, Exceptional Hand-colored, Artfully Composed Victorian Pictorial Scrapbook handmade foot stool and knowing they were done

and knowing they were done just a few miles from me

) Missing one glass eye as evident and one hand

with just the right amount of irregularity

but contact me if interested

I really can't decide which side of this one I like better

Of a Different Ilk, Exceptional Hand-colored, Artfully Composed Victorian Pictorial Scrapbook handmade foot stool and knowing they were doneThis "pictorial scrapbook" is a revelation to me. I have never paid much attention at all to Victorian scrapbooks, typically filled with die cuts and trade cards and illustrations of fashionable ladies cut from journals most seeming very much of the 'seen one, seen them all' variety to me. But amidst those, I am now becoming more aware, there were some extraordinary albums being created very inventive photo collages, for example, and "scrapbook