Beschreibung:

INTERESTING 19TH CENTURY NORWAY, MAINE FAMILY ARCHIVE OF JONATHAN POTTLE FAMILY INCLUDING FINE PRESENTATION MARITIME TELESCOPE. Archive includes: two circa 1900 photographs of the Jonathan Pottle house in Norway, Maine with inked details on verso. Also included are two early 19th century ledgers with 1930 newspaper articles telling of the over 100 page manuscript arithmetic book. Numerous arithmetic problems in text show how to convert measures and money, so this was a practical arithmetic book. There also is a leather covered, 76 page ledger of Pottle’s daily accounts starting in 1806 through 1830’s. Folded in book are several receipts and a poor condition $20 Confederate note. Also included is an inscribed 1811 Dedham, Massachusetts imprint of The Psalms of David . There are two Victorian walking sticks with decorated gold tops, one inscribed “Sir Thomas Collyer, April 27 1836, April 27, 1886”. The other stick has a fancy monogram. Also included in