Wonderful, One of a Kind c. 1870 Complete Perpetual Calendar with Handwritten Notes Across Generations lead Arthur Tilo Alt (1931-2019)--a scholar

Arthur Tilo Alt (1931-2019)--a scholar and professor of German in Yiddish language and literature in the Judaic studies program at Duke University--which came from his estate in Younsgsville

the type of shark I'm not sure

These appear to be made of steel plate and welded to their bases rather than being made cast iron

This wonderful little dog has a companion carved rabbit--I am listing them separately but would love to see them stay together

There a pencil-drawn number 6 at bottom and a 14 scribbled out just visible under the top edge of the frame

Wonderful, One of a Kind c. 1870 Complete Perpetual Calendar with Handwritten Notes Across Generations lead Arthur Tilo Alt (1931-2019)--a scholarAmong my very favorite recent finds, this perpetual calendar dates to no later than 1870 or so, as there a number of dated handwritten notes on fronts and backs of the monthly inserts, recording exceptional weather events in the early 1870s (snow on Oct 18 19, 1871, big snow storm March 31, 1872, etc.) Especially beautiful to me is that another set of notes were added in the 1940s "Brian's birthday" on Feb 15, the return of Ian Buchanan from WW2 on