You Will Never Fail, Earlier 19th Century Manuscript Recipe for Tempering Edge Tools Italian opera painting Framed: 11" x 9 5/8"

Framed: 11" x 9 5/8"

recording exceptional weather events in the early 1870s (snow on Oct 18-19

One certainly wonders what all happened that year in the life of the Frank Ellis who drew this in 1864--during the Civil War

20 sets of cards

designed to enable a very bruising thwacking

You Will Never Fail, Earlier 19th Century Manuscript Recipe for Tempering Edge Tools Italian opera painting Framed: 11" x 9 5/8"A Reipt [I believe meant as receipt, widely used instead of recipe in the 19th century] to tempur [sic] edge tools. Take 5th of tallow, 1 1 2th of hard sope [sic], 1th of beeswax, 1th of horse hoof, 1th of salt first fry the horses foot [crossed out] hoof in the tallow then take out the horse hoof then boil it all together and put it in a troft [sic] large enough to temper any tool then heat the tool a chery [sic] red and stick it in and leave it be