The Blackbird Examination Tablet (12 cents price tag)

The Blackbird Examination Tablet (12 cents price tag) Graphic of large Blackbird and the following rhyme:,

Now said the blackbird to the crow

If you’re not black I don’t know

For since the day Adam was born

You’ve been guilty of pulling up corn.

SOHS 86.13.54.1

Primitive wooden leaded pencil with hand sharpened tip. A narrow paper handwritten note is attached that reads “Nathaniel Grandpapa Myer pencil” Lead pencils were sometimes homemade and hand sharpened using a pocket knife. SOHS 78.106.1