Samuel Gifford (Age 9) 1802 British Math Notebook handmade wooden clown was a souvenir from Jelling

was a souvenir from Jelling

with a wonderful presence

The red painted wood frame is pretty dinged up too

There is a strong Inuit tradition of carving human and owl faces from whale vertebrae

I have found a number of other examples of vintage pieces made by Gerson

Samuel Gifford (Age 9) 1802 British Math Notebook handmade wooden clown was a souvenir from Jelling****Newly available as the buyer who claimed this disappeared! ***** I have long been eyeing antique school notebooks, both relating to the study of math and writing penmanship, and finally found a lovely set of five of them from a seller in England, which I am listing individually. This is the oldest among them, a math notebook of a Samuel Gifford Junior of Blackford Somerset, dating to 1802, with a note on the first inside page that he died a year