Fabulous C. 1820s Century Mechanical Ink and Watercolor Perpetual Almanack, Ready to Use antique pocket watch print block with excellent red painted toenails

with excellent red painted toenails

I believe they date to the 1970s or so--and certainly they seem quite 1970s in sensibility to me

and with a nice warm dry wood patina as well

a series of whose larger drawings on ledger people were featured in a recent collaboration between Critical Eye and Ricco/Maresca Gallery-- and a number of which are still available in the shop

A bit of staining as there should be and one small hairline crack along one edge of the lip

Fabulous C. 1820s Century Mechanical Ink and Watercolor Perpetual Almanack, Ready to Use antique pocket watch print block with excellent red painted toenailsSo cool, and so crisp and modern feeling, though about 200 years old! It is a working perpetual calendar, ink and watercolor on card, with a tab on the back side that moves up and down to change the day of the week, making it ever applicable. With the days of the month arranged in a neat grid at center, and the hand written text on the column at right noting the number of days in each month. ("Feb. hath 28 or 29 days") A bit akin to a mechanical