Wonderful, One of a Kind c. 1870 Complete Perpetual Calendar with Handwritten Notes Across Generations lead This is not an antique

This is not an antique

There a pencil-drawn number 6 at bottom and a 14 scribbled out just visible under the top edge of the frame

and of course made better by the matte green glaze

the type of shark I'm not sure

Wonderful, One of a Kind c. 1870 Complete Perpetual Calendar with Handwritten Notes Across Generations lead This is not an antiqueAmong my very favorite recent finds, this perpetual calendar dates to no later than 1870 or so, as there a number of dated handwritten notes on fronts and backs of the monthly inserts, recording exceptional weather events in the early 1870s (snow on Oct 18 19, 1871, big snow storm March 31, 1872, etc.) Especially beautiful to me is that another set of notes were added in the 1940s "Brian's birthday" on Feb 15, the return of Ian Buchanan from WW2 on