The Collected Home, featuring Property from the Collection of Addice and Peter Thomas

overall remarkably intact given the age, with expected signs of wear commensurate with age and use, including some scattered losses to paint throughout, most visibly to front and lid; the lid with scratch and minor age crack; the interior paper exhibiting rippling and some staining; the underside generally with loss to surface, and the front right-facing corner with some old insect damage; the clasp to keep the lid shut is broken and missing, with some old rubbed wear around where clasp would have been

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