Author: PERPETUAL CALENDAR
Title: A Substantial Hand-Made Perpetual Calendar.
Description: Odstock, Withsire: James Davis, 1821. A large hand made and drawn perpetual calendar in pencil, pen and ink, and watercolour, 490 x 380 mm. paper, mounted on board with wooden mechanical levers to the verso: in a modern frame. The years column has been replaced and updated to show the years 1853 - 1864> presumably this was altered every ten years showing that the calendar was in continuous use from its creation until at least the 1850s. Printed perpetual calendars started to become more common from the late 18th Century and subsequently were occasionally made by hand to occupy and amuse and are seen from time to time in scrapbooks of the nineteenth century. This example, however, of magnificent proportions, signed and dated by James David of Odstock, Wiltshire in 1821, was obviously made for ostentatious display in a country home and the replacement of the years column is a reflection of the use that was made of it.

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