Antique Marbled Paper Covers with Cloth Bindings, Harvard University vintage bar tool there is an exquisite shop

there is an exquisite shop called Asiatica

I purchased this album online and thought I would take it apart and list the pieces individually (each one is frame-worthy)

while one front leg stays in place with an old extra nail added there at some point

and giant phallus

Antique Marbled Paper Covers with Cloth Bindings, Harvard University vintage bar tool there is an exquisite shopSo pretty. I'm forever oggling hand marbled paper covers on old books, but often less interested in the pages inside! These were once owned by Harvard University (the Museum of Comparative Zoology specifically) and held short published essays inside, but one is now stripped of all of them and the other holds just a couple of pages making the perfect now to use as portfolios of sorts, or as covers for other things, etc. Hand marbled paper over hard