The upper right-hand corner of your laptop or the opening screen on your ever-present phone tracks your every fleeting moment. But there was an era, approximately a century ago, when time earned more fanfare in everyday life. The bright idea, as in the handsome wood "scrolling” example here, was called a "Perpetual Calendar.” Without doubt, this addition to one’s study or place of work presented the owner’s tasteful character more forcefully than, say, the insurance salesman’s flimsy paper...
