Louis Kirk's 1860 Leather and Hand-marbled Bill Holder with Month + Alphabet + Sundries Tabs plastic figure 8x10 1/2”

8x10 1/2”

Woven of sweetgrass and dyed ash splint

but which I assume notes the maker and detail the embroideries and their use

with a bit of light wears  to the surface of the photo and a bit of darkening along the top edge--more pronounced in photos

the plane crashed but my life was saved

Louis Kirk's 1860 Leather and Hand-marbled Bill Holder with Month + Alphabet + Sundries Tabs plastic figure 8x10 1/2”I find this so beautiful just as an object, and if one were fairly gentle with it, it could be put to use again as an organizer. The exterior is leather with marbled paper border on the face, and more marbled paper over the top of the back. Inside, lovely blue fabric covering divided sections, trimmed in black, each labeled in gold lettering with the month letters of the alphabet and terminating with "Sundries" at the rear. With "Louis Kirk, July 9,