Dear Sacred Book, Oh Let Me Treasure Thee...Maranda Mowry's 1852 Pocket Bible with Handwritten Inscription tonka 1957 It's funny what sets our

It's funny what sets our various hearts racing--this one completely did it for me

) 14 3/4" x 14" x 3/4" thick and ready to hang

Not so old--this super sweet scratch made cardboard house was dated 1973 on the underside--though of course now the 1970s were a fairly long time ago now

With a nice lushness about it (I especially love the  rich brown of those tree trunks)

And also the fact that the waiter looks to me very much like Vladimir Putin

Dear Sacred Book, Oh Let Me Treasure Thee...Maranda Mowry's 1852 Pocket Bible with Handwritten Inscription tonka 1957 It's funny what sets ourMuch of the beauty of searching for things in the physical world (in contrast to buying online) is coming across things I'd never look for though of course it's the danger too, as there are so many different sorts of empathetic objects! This was propped in a glass case, spine concealed, but a little handwriting visible, so of course I had to ask to see it, to discover it is a (hefty!) pocket Bible, published by Sanborn and Carter, Portland ME, 1852 a