Piero Strassburger's Copy of The United States Arithmetician, 1831, with Fraktur Writing orange cow How much better than an

How much better than an action figure though

Lincoln seems a pretty good one to have around

with the individually cast--plaster/composition--connected via a cloth ribbon that runs the span of the snake and sticks out at the tail

(With the font used for "Black Autumn" very close to the that used for the now iconic " I Am a Man" posters of the 1968 Memphis sanitation strike

not visible if hung face front

Piero Strassburger's Copy of The United States Arithmetician, 1831, with Fraktur Writing orange cow How much better than anI try to restrain myself, but I really have very limited capacity to resist early school books that teem with the presence of those who owned them long ago. And even more so when the manifestation of that presence is a full page of heavily inked fraktur writing as here quite a declaration of ownership by Piero Strassburger on the date of February 5, 1835 (and I love seeing the "anno domini" Latin.) The book itself appears to be quite a scarce one too