1843 "Bread Book" milking stool I believe likely for a

I believe likely for a carnival game--and indeed it is quite a performative thing to toss these heavy things

There is one chip on the lip that shows the same color as the body

and what a lot of love and use it appears to have seen

with minor losses to the paper

1843 "Bread Book" milking stool I believe likely for aI bought this one just for the cover, with Bread Book handwritten in dark graphite letters against thick brown paper, which is darkened by stains across half of it, perhaps from oil spilled while baking! it appears definitely to have been the log order book of a baker, as the handwritten lists inside are for cakes and pies and crackers and loaves of bread by the dozen. Dated 1843 with a mix of filled and blank pages and, as an object, quite teeming