A Booky Find

During an op shop crawl searching for old photo frames last week, I found this:

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It’s an old cash book. Huge and rather heavy. There’s a receipt inside dated 1966.

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I’m thinking of carving a hollow out of the inside and using it as a box. I’ve read on sketchbook artist’s blogs that old books like this can have really good paper for sketching and painting on – if you don’t mind the lines – so I’m going to reserve the pieces I carve out for bookbinding projects.

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Only a few pages inside have been written on.

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The list is mysterious. Items include ‘Eastern Princes’, ‘The Burgular’, ‘All Aces’, ‘Immortal Don’, ‘Persian Chief’, ‘Dark Briar’, ‘Fun in the Sun’, ‘Perculator’, ‘Boeing Boy’. What do you reckon they are? Race horses? Teams?

3 thoughts on “A Booky Find

  1. I can’t read the writing properly on the page so I am guessing here, but race horses (or greyhounds) sounds likely. Possibly book titles but less likely. A nice find!

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