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Front Cover of a Marbled Paper Binding
The handwritten label on the spine is severely faded and partially illegible.
This historical book cover is bound in marbled paper. The pattern, likely a "stone" or "agate" marble style, consists of large, irregular grey and black spots with prominent veins and smaller droplets of blue, red, and yellow-ochre.
In the upper left corner, overlapping the spine, is a small, rectangular, off-white paper label containing five lines of faded manuscript text:
Un...? original: "Un"; likely a prefix for a title or classification —? 12? Groschen? original: "gs"; a common historical currency unit in German states 1812?