Set of Three 1880s Connecticut River Barge Operator's Ledgers with Pages and Pages of Satisfying Hatch Marks carved parlor mirror Just a fun object

Just a fun object

just a few light scratches to the surface that I don't think detract at all

Eliot Clark was a precocious artist who became a landscape painter in the late American Impressionist style

unused printed back

11" x 11 5/8" x 1 1/4"

Set of Three 1880s Connecticut River Barge Operator's Ledgers with Pages and Pages of Satisfying Hatch Marks carved parlor mirror Just a fun objectHonestly, I purchased these because I found the handwritten labels on their fronts and the pages and pages of careful hatchmark tallying inside very visually satisfying. But then I figured out they were logs kept by a barge operator, with each of those hatchmarks I believe representing a trip taken load carried down the Connecticut River. I haven't dug too much into them, but each ledger contains records for the accounts of different individuals, with