Brown leather travel notebook with brass owl charm
Description
I lost my brown leather travel notebook yesterday afternoon around 3pm near the Ithaca Commons on Green Street, in the heart of downtown Ithaca in the Finger Lakes region. It's a compact 6x8 inch notebook with a soft calfskin cover, a brass owl charm dangling from the elastic closure, and a blue ribbon bookmark sticking out from page corners. The initials 'P.P.' are lightly scratched into the cover. It contains old sketches and several notes about a trip I took with a friend; it has sentimental value for me. If anyone found it, please reach out—I’d be really grateful to get it back.
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