George Abbott's Model & Design Sketchbook with Lovely Hand-drawn Patterns antique bone spillikins pretty minor

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With those two big (relatively speaking) silver wheels perfectly punctuating the symmetry

and which a little research has taught me is a late 18th/early 19th century Italian Renaissance Revival marquetry panel

and under her simple cotton dress a smartly wrapped undergarment fastened with a safety pin

I'm always looking at old game boards because they are beautiful

George Abbott's Model & Design Sketchbook with Lovely Hand-drawn Patterns antique bone spillikins pretty minorOne of three 1870s notebooks today from a George Abbott of Boston, MA, this one not full (if only!), but with a handful of very lovely drawings in it, several very carefully done pattern designs included and one stand along gouache on paper pattern painting loose inside its pages that I'd frame straight away. Photos show pretty much all of the pages, with short descriptions below them identifying a few as drawn from geometric "solids models" and