Transformative gutter (and employee’s ringed fingers).
From the front matter of Regulations for the Army of the United States (1857). Does not include metadata indicating library of origination or date of digitization (but does include Stanford library artifacts).




![Gloved fingers of (married?) digitization employee.
From the front matter of Grif, by Benjamin Leopold Farjeon (1870). [Here]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lsbeuylZnz1qixa76o1_1280.png)