Of a Different Ilk, Exceptional Hand-colored, Artfully Composed Victorian Pictorial Scrapbook yourself magazine The interior of the box

The interior of the box is lined in crimson red paper

and then this terrific patch of green with a lighter green stripe as of hit by a ray of light

which seem a mix of white and a reddish horsehair

and closer to $100 to L

I don't believe this is very old--I presume the '20 at bottom right means 2020--but I think it is very excellent

Of a Different Ilk, Exceptional Hand-colored, Artfully Composed Victorian Pictorial Scrapbook yourself magazine The interior of the boxThis "pictorial scrapbook" is a revelation to me. I have never paid much attention at all to Victorian scrapbooks, typically filled with die cuts and trade cards and illustrations of fashionable ladies cut from journals most seeming very much of the 'seen one, seen them all' variety to me. But amidst those, I am now becoming more aware, there were some extraordinary albums being created very inventive photo collages, for example, and "scrapbook