Colorfully Crayoned Wooly Mammoth and More, F.M Spitzer's Much Animated Copy of Primary Geograpy, 1870 antique wooden wheel 4 7/8" in diameter with

4 7/8" in diameter with a very fine hairline crack running up from the hare's back

I would guess mid 19th c or so

which I believe would have been used for teaching/learning how to read time on a clock

Super crisp and just striking

Colorfully Crayoned Wooly Mammoth and More, F.M Spitzer's Much Animated Copy of Primary Geograpy, 1870 antique wooden wheel 4 7/8" in diameter withThis is one of two old school books purchased for their endpaper drawings today examples like this make really happy, and I'll never resist them. This is a c. 1870 copy of The Eclectic Series Primary Geography, with a young F. M Spitzer having had it in his hands in 1888 and doing with it as he wished! The crayon colored, brightly striped wooly mammoth on the inside back cover surrounded by doodles is what really does it for me (and which I'd be