Antique Marbled Paper Covers with Cloth Bindings, Harvard University vintage bar tool and screwed to the flat

and screwed to the flat base

This is the first one I've seen where the form inside the "cage" has a flattish bottom and a little carved handle on one side

while one front leg stays in place with an old extra nail added there at some point

completed by an Anne Titchaner

Antique Marbled Paper Covers with Cloth Bindings, Harvard University vintage bar tool and screwed to the flatSo pretty. I'm forever oggling hand marbled paper covers on old books, but often less interested in the pages inside! These were once owned by Harvard University (the Museum of Comparative Zoology specifically) and held short published essays inside, but one is now stripped of all of them and the other holds just a couple of pages making the perfect now to use as portfolios of sorts, or as covers for other things, etc. Hand marbled paper over hard