Isaac Ilsley's 1820 Math Notebook with Lovely Headers, Portland Maine green leaf Invaluable

Invaluable

The hair is real badger hair

12" t x 6 1/8" w x 3 1/2" and in excellent antique condition

Hand-drawn sgraffito for the white lines with glossy gray-blue and black glaze and a coiled ring on the underside to nicely ground it

Isaac Ilsley's 1820 Math Notebook with Lovely Headers, Portland Maine green leaf InvaluableIt's the pages headed with "Single Fellow"s and Double Fellowship" that really sold me on this one, a math notebook dating to 1820 kept by an Isaac Ilsley of Portland, Maine. And really I might be tempted to extract the former from the notebook to frame it to admire the mast head like "Single Fellows" so beautifully lettered, and also as it delivers a definition of fellowship that resonates far beyond its context: "Fellowship is when two or more join