Agnes Gilbert's Beautifully Preserved Early 20th C. Herbarium with Sixteen Samples plates with Guignol chararcters There are three old screw

There are three old screw holes down the center

All diamonds are here

I've developed quite a weakness for old handmade needle books

it was somewhat tarnished when I found it

Agnes Gilbert's Beautifully Preserved Early 20th C. Herbarium with Sixteen Samples plates with Guignol chararcters There are three old screwThis herbarium is undated, but I know the portfolio itself, designed by C. S. Jackson and published by Rumford Supply Co., South Weymouth MA, has a 1906 copyright, so would think this dates to the first quarter of the 20th c. or so. On the inside cover Agnes Gilbert lists the 16 samples she carefully preserved and detailed for her Botany II course, which are all still enclosed, each on the right side of a paper folio, with details about the specimen