Pressed Between the Pages of Time

Antique books are a treasure in and of themselves, but it's always an extra treat when you find bits and pieces of mementos tucked inside the pages, preserved through the years.

This book came home with me from the auction last week.  It was published in 1886.   

Aren't the fonts on the title page pretty?

I was flipping through the pages, when I stumbled upon a little note written to "Ella" in 1890.  It was a very short little note that read, "For a cold in the chest, a flannel rag, wrung out in boiling water and sprinkled with turpentine, laid on the chest, gives the greatest relief.  

Your warm Friends, Edith and Ethel".

When I got to this page with a pretty illustration titled,

"Spring - Gathering Violets", it was a sweet surprise to find one small violet pressed between the pages, 
likely preserved for over 100 years.

I'm sure Ella never dreamed someone would stumble upon her little pressed flower so many years later, but it put a smile on my face to find it.  There were also several scraps of fabric and a pretty little scrap of trim, 
used as a page marker.

The pages have aged to such a pretty color and the illustrations throughout the book are wonderful.

I think I'll press some flowers between the pages of a book, and leave a little note with it.  I'd like to think that 100 years from now, someone will be flipping through the pages and stumble upon it and smile.

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