The Progressive Reader Volume Two, As Found, with Monarchs! antique checkerboard He just pulls at my

He just pulls at my heartstrings

long is 4 7/8" long

perhaps Ukranian

the painting is the work of Benjamin Allen Harnett (1873-1945)

but I think photos make it look dirtier than it is

The Progressive Reader Volume Two, As Found, with Monarchs! antique checkerboard He just pulls at myIve come more and more to delight in old books as physical objects and for the histories their readers have left behind in and on their pages, and opening this one to find these two monarchs felt like a message from the universe to reclaim it. Based on the paper towels they were carefully folded into Id say this reader served a few generations, with the butterflies probably held inside for 50 or 60 years. The reader itself shows a 1909 copyright and