Antique Gilt Tooled Leather Autograph Album
Antique Gilt Tooled Leather Autograph Album
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This little album has done very little of the autographing it was built for. The gilt cover still reads AUTOGRAPHS in full Victorian confidence, birds and scrollwork intact on the front board, a blind-tooled floral spray on the back. Inside, the pages stayed almost entirely blank, except for one page a child claimed with a red pen sometime around 1989, letters, a crossed out scribble, and that date written out plain. Call it a hundred and forty years of restraint interrupted by one determined kid. The chromolithographed title page inside the cover is still bright, and the leather shows the honest wear you'd expect, softened edges and a touch of rub, with a small separation at the front hinge.
The leather boards show honest wear consistent with age, softened and slightly rubbed at the corners and edges. There is a small separation at the inner hinge of the front free endpaper. A faint pencil price notation, likely from a previous dealer or estate sale, is visible on the illustrated title leaf and has been left as found rather than removed. The gilt tooling on the front board and spine remains bright and legible. Interior pages are blank throughout with the exception of one page marked in red ink by a child, letter attempts alongside a crossed out scribble and the date 1989 written plainly. Binding remains sound and the album opens and closes cleanly.
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