Two bone paper cutters with thin oblong shape. Slight indentation near mid-point of tool marks transition from handle to thinner blade.
Attached note reads, "Paper Cutters = Over hundred yrs old = Father = Grand father = Great Grand Father of Laura Ehler Frisbie = Lancaster, Penna / Museum"
Silver and Iron paper knife. Blade folds into handle. Handle decorated on both sides in relief scroll-work, leaf designs. 'James Buchanan' inscribed on one side at one end of handle. Capped head with 'T&W' and arm-and-hammer. Good condition.
Postal cubby holes from the Mast Post Office in Narvon. Contains 24 small mail slots in three rows of eight. Mail slots are on a wide base, approximately twice as deep as the slots, and raised 10inches above the base.
The post office opened April 23, 1883 and closed August 31, 1909. The post office and store were located in a farmhouse, and the cubbyholes were built to fit one of the windowsills.
Carpenter's pencil with flat sides, chamfered corners, painted yellow. Printed "H.D. LAUTERBACH // Lumber & Building Material / Bartinville, Ill. Phones 4-2706 and 4-5924."
Provenance
Maker to daughter Ruth Eppley Ganse and spouse Robert N. Ganse to son
Tan card stock covered composition book with drawing of Wheatland on the front and Weights and measurement equivalents and multiplication table on back. Brown tape spine. White with blue lined paper pages stitched inside. Corners are rounded. Cover state
Provenance
Used by donor as a school girl in Lancaster in 1939-1941.
Brown inkwell with a gold design. Six holes at top, one has a cork in it. Another hole has two strings hanging out (one with a piece of cork attached). Long black ink pen accompanies the inkwell.
