1843 "Bread Book" milking stool There is one chip on

There is one chip on the lip that shows the same color as the body

also known as Wild Turnip

amplifying a sense of bareness (as well as bearness

It is very faintly stamped Sierra Leone on the bottom and I believe dates to the 1920s or so

1843 "Bread Book" milking stool There is one chip onI bought this one just for the cover, with Bread Book handwritten in dark graphite letters against thick brown paper, which is darkened by stains across half of it, perhaps from oil spilled while baking! it appears definitely to have been the log order book of a baker, as the handwritten lists inside are for cakes and pies and crackers and loaves of bread by the dozen. Dated 1843 with a mix of filled and blank pages and, as an object, quite teeming