Lot 071 - Antique Register Guest Book For The Kernwood Club With Green Corduroy Cover, Leather Spine And Nameplate, Marbled Endpapers, And Blank Visitor Fields, Thomas Groom & Co., Boston, 15" x 12"

Lot 071 - Antique Register Guest Book For The Kernwood Club With Green Corduroy Cover, Leather Spine And Nameplate, Marbled Endpapers, And Blank Visitor Fields, Thomas Groom & Co., Boston, 15" x 12"Antique register guest book for the Kernwood Club, a social club likely associated with Massachusetts. Features a green corduroy cover, leather spine, and leather nameplate with gilt embossed lettering, along with marbled endpapers. Contains many blank pages with printed fields for date, visitor, residence, and by whom introduced; pages previously used were removed at an earlier date. Manufactured by Thomas Groom & Co., Stationers, Boston, with the

Photo sold with plastic frame

Here is a somber sixth plate ambrotype photograph of a deceased baby girl with golden hair seated upright and clutching flowers

likely Swiss or French

Pre-Auction Notes: Deck of 50 antique playing cards by Russell Playing Card Co

” with “1934” at the left

The latest patent date listed on the camera is January 7

” featuring a young girl in a pink dress and red witch hat flying on a broomstick beside a black cat

Slightly dented out of round

Serial #: AD548911

and three expressive owl faces along the bottom

upper left

Note that the bottom half is lighter than the darker upper half