Davida Perley's Handmade Kindergarten Booklet with Penmanship and Assorted Treats measuring glass This one makes me want

This one makes me want to start collecting miniature books to house in it

the complexity of nature and the subtlety of truth

This miniature cast sterling silver polar bear is just an exquisite little object

shorts and boots

Martha: 10 1/8” l

Davida Perley's Handmade Kindergarten Booklet with Penmanship and Assorted Treats measuring glass This one makes me wantA sweet thing, done by a Davida Perley, likely while in kindergarten, c. 1930s or so I think. To me there is a lot of poetry in the repetition of simple phases like "Dare to be true" and "The blue birds have come," written in a young hand trying hard to get the cursive right. Plus a Froebel paper weaving, great cutout bunny and bear and trees, and a few other little treats. 8 x 5 1 2". Pages and various cutouts all loose. I'd be disposed to pop "Dare