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Description:
Large, original general store ledger belonging to E. M. Hunt Jr. of Cornish Flat, New Hampshire, begun January 1, 1903 and continuing over several years. Measures approx 14.25" x 10", bound in leather over board with gilt-lettered spine labels (“LEDGER – C – E. M. HUNT Jr.”). Leather shows typical period wear and chipping along the spine and corners, but the binding remains sturdy.

Inside front cover bears the Hoffmann Flat Opening Blank Book patent label (pat. 1892). Contains alphabetical index tabs A–Z and about 1,000 numbered pages, roughly half filled in neat period ink.

Entries document accounts for numerous customers and companies including P. H. Dunphy Co., F. C. Jackson Co., P. F. Aver Co., H. D. Howe Co., A. E. Huse Co., R. H. Thornburgh Co., C. A. Harden Co., A. G. Hawley Co., Borden Fertilizer Co., and Frank W. Fairbanks Co. The pages show day-to-day trade typical of an early-1900s New England mercantile business, with purchases of flour, oil, molasses, grain, sugar, tobacco, soap, hardware, and coal oil, as well as freight and cash payments carefully itemized across double-page debit and credit columns.

Interior pages are clean and legible with light age toning; a few unused sections show scattered pencil marks. Marbled endpapers bright and intact.

Condition:

Leather cover worn and chipped with corner loss.

Binding intact and pages tight.

Roughly half of the book filled with detailed ink entries.

Authentic period piece related to family, history or local heritage - well-suited for historical collections, genealogical /genealogy research, or museum acquisition.  Vintage or Antique.



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