Unusual Antique Sunday School Temperance Pledge: Wine, Beer, Cider, Tobacco--and Opium! reverse glass painted nameplate The lock is disabled

The lock is disabled

my guess is 1880s or so

or bills yet to be paid

and mounted to black cloth and in what I believe is the original frame

complete double six set to play with as well as to admire

Unusual Antique Sunday School Temperance Pledge: Wine, Beer, Cider, Tobacco--and Opium! reverse glass painted nameplate The lock is disabledThis just struck me as a fun little bit of history a Sunday School temperance pledge, c. 1880s I believe, which not only includes abstention from alcohol (wine, beer and cider) but also from tobacco and, most uncommonly, opium! These were a important component of the temperance movement in the 19th and early 20th century, and were often signed in public settings and organizational contexts, Sunday schools among them, to heighten accountability. I