Trash to Treasure Tuesday is hosted by Diane at A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words
My Trash to Treasure items are some very old ledger books.These books date back to the late 1800's to early 1900's. My brother found them in an old building downtown, and thought they might look good in my house. He was right. How long do you think these ledger books sat there collecting dust? They are huge, and extremely heavy. It's hard to believe they had to hand write every single transaction that took place. They are beautiful, and I will treasure them forever.
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I love those old books! They look great on your book shelves!
Thanks for playing along!
What great old books! How fun that you can enjoy them.
I love those big books, and Jonathan was right...they look great in your house!
Hi Kelli...don't you just love to have unique things like this... it was a lucky find for your brother & sweet of him to think of you!
;-) Bo
WOW!! how great those books are..now I seen on a blog where a gal had some and made an end table out of them...just stacked them up and had a glass top made for them...but I see you have a baby and maybe not a good idea..thanks for sharing and hi-five to your Brother..hugs and smiles Gloria
What a great find! They look great!
Wow, Kelli ... What a great find and a sweet brother to think of you when he saw them.
Good morning Kelli, Your ledger books are a treasure worth more than money.
I love the way you have displayed them too. What a great find. Your brother was alert when he found those books. Lucky you.
Hugs...Jeanne
Oh, how I love books! And leather ones! And antique ones! These are definitely a treasure. Just look at the hand-tooled leather. Thank you for sharing. These are beauties.
I loved visiting your blog and hope you'll come over and visit my nest, too. :-)
Sheila
I LOVE those! Especially since I used to work at a bank...where we had to manually enter in all of the Land Contract payments that our clients held with our bank...what a pain that was, lol...and this was in the 1980's, so not that long ago.
What a great treasure!!!
Thanks so much for all of the lovely comments you have made on my blog :) :)
Bella
Old books make a wonderful statement in a home. They are beautiful!
I would love to get my little hands on those books and just spend hours.... Very sweet my dear!
I have been looking for some old books like that. I love how they look. Lucky you!
Carrie
Thanks for your words and advice, I trust you. These books of your might be worth some money? hmmm... Thanks girl, have a great day!!
Omigosh........those are gorgeous. I adore old books...beatiful way to display them too. cherry
Those are beautiful books.
Trash to treasure...hmm, unfortunately mine is trash to trash!
:)
These look beautiful!
I love the sculptural bindings, they're beautiful. I plan to join the group starting next Tuesday.
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Hugs,
Victoria
What an amazing piece of history to have. Bet no one had any idea their ledger books would make such an awesome decorating item in a 100 years.... :0} Diane
ooooo those look GREAT!!
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