Antique 1867 Pennsylvania Handwritten Farm Account Ledger Estate Notes Ephemera For Sale

Original nineteenth-century handwritten account book containing farm and labor accounts, financial transactions, and extensive personal and family estate notes.

Photographed entries include dates beginning in 1867 and continuing into the 1870s. Accounts record goods and services such as vinegar, corn, hay hauling, mowing, harvesting, threshing, plowing, and butchering, along with payments and balances. Other passages discuss debts, property, family members, and instructions concerning the writer’s estate.

The volume has an alphabetical index and 368 numbered ledger pages, including unused ruled pages. Marbled boards are finished with a red spine and corners. An embossed bookseller’s mark reads “Theo. F. Scheffer, Bookseller and Printer, 21 South Second St., Harrisburg, Pa.”

Includes the loose papers pictured: a handwritten letter, an 1886 Linglestown receipt for making cider, and a $3.50 Masonic Hall Association of Harrisburg interest coupon dated 1874.

Measures approximately 13.75” x 8.5” x 1”. An interesting original resource for Pennsylvania local history, agricultural history, and family research.

Condition
Antique used condition with substantial rubbing and surface loss to the marbled covers. Red spine and corners show scuffing, fading, and edge wear, with exposed board at worn areas. Pages have age toning, scattered foxing, stains, ink blots, handwritten corrections, and some folded or creased corners. Endpapers are stained and marked. Binding is tight. No noticeable odor. Loose papers have folds, staining, tears, and edge losses. Includes unused pages; page-by-page completeness has not been verified.

Some photos have been digitally staged… Please refer to the original, unstaged photos for the most accurate representation of the item’s color, condition, dimensions, shape, and details.