This large butcher's ledger contains hundreds of pages of handwritten accounts detailing customers' purchases: chops, steaks, pot-au-feu, sausages, andouillettes, and other cuts of meat, with their weights and prices. The ink entries spread across columned pages topped with the words "Doit Avoir" in Gothic script. On the edge, beautiful blue alphabetical tabs with ornate letters made it possible to find each account. A black cloth binding with a red label completes this set, as interesting for the history of commerce as for the charm of its typographic details.
✦ Origin: France ✦ Period: early 20th century ✦ Dimensions: approximately 31 x 20.5 x 3 cm ✦ Material: paper, handwritten ink, and cloth-covered cardboard binding ✦ Contents: 404 pages, approximately 85 to 90% written ✦ Condition: worn binding, split joints, and damaged spine; pages stained in places, tears, and missing pieces on a few pages.
Old handwritten butcher's ledger, with customer accounts and decorative blue drop caps from the 1920s.
