Antique Jerusalem Olive Wood Pressed Flower Herbarium Album - all 12 Intact Pages - AS-IS

Up for sale is a beautiful, early 20th-century antique Jerusalem souvenir herbarium album. This historic keepsake volume was meticulously crafted in the Holy Land for turn-of-the-century pilgrims and travelers, featuring hand-pressed botanical specimens gathered from biblically significant sites. Please note that this item is being sold strictly **AS-IS for parts, restoration, or crafting**. The leather/cloth spine has completely split through, causing the front olive wood cover board to fully detach from the internal text block. Despite the broken binding, the individual internal pages feature gorgeous, remarkably intact botanical artwork that is highly salvageable for individual framing or mixed-media art. **Cover details:** Features polished olive wood covers with beautiful natural grain. The front panel boasts a central carved section reading "Jerusalem" in English and Hebrew, tightly framed by a complete, colorful micro-mosaic geometric marquetry inlay border showing only minor edge scuffs. **Documented Interior Pages & Botanical Displays:** 1. **Flowers of the Mount Olives:** Symmetrical fan bouquet featuring incredibly intricate, perfectly intact curled fern tendrils and fronds aged to a warm sepia tone. 2. **Flowers from Bethlehem:** Exceptionally well-preserved vine layout with broad pressed leaves, delicate curling stems, and a vivid cluster of dried petals that remarkably still retain visible blue, purple, and red pigments. 3. **Flowers from Mount Zion:** Striking, intact arrangement carefully laid out in the shape of a Star of David featuring mixed colorful petals and fine backing ferns. 4. **Flowers of the Valley of the Jordan:** Intact, fan-style bouquet featuring thick, textured stems and broad leafy fern fronds naturally aged to an antique sepia tone. 5. **Flowers from Saffed (Safed):** Features a distinctive central vertical stem element nestled between two beautifully mirrored, flanking feather-fern sprays. 6. **Flowers from Mount Moriah:** Intact asymmetrical fan sprig with fine stems. Features a charming period printing typo in the French subtext ("Felurs" instead of "Fleurs"). 7. **Flowers from Mount Hermon:** A beautifully intact, asymmetrical layout featuring contrasting fine-needle and broad-spear alpine foliage elements. 8. **Flowers of the Mount of Gerizim:** A highly detailed, beautifully intact symmetrical fan-style bouquet with pristine layering of ferns and branching stems. 9. **Flowers from Siloah:** Symmetrical bouquet layout with central branching fern elements and original dried flower heads firmly attached to their stems. 10. **Flowers from Jerusalem:** Faded wreath-style arrangement showing historical petal degradation and loss over time, though the underlying fern outline remains intact. 11. **Flowers of the Mount Carmel:** A striking and unique arrangement styled in the shape of a classical urn/vase with emerging stems. Note: This page has a prominent diagonal crease/tear cutting across the center and a patch of surface paper loss on the left edge. 12. Another one I missed when photoing. **Condition Summary:** The binding threads have failed and the spine is completely severed, cleanly splitting the volume. The internal cardstock sheets and original protective tissue guards show expected antique halo foxing, amber moisture staining, and heavy age-toning radiating outward from the organic plant oils. Please review all high-resolution photos closely to inspect the exact spine damage and individual page conditions. This fragile piece of history will be packed with extra padding and securely wrapped to ensure safe arrival.