Buck with Bright Eyes and Soaring Antlers, Beautifully Rendered 19th Century Graphite Drawing flower specimen These sets have become quite

These sets have become quite collectible

One sees a fair number of antique lacquered papier mache snuff boxes

1920s German

and they are pretty worn

I only recently learned about album amicorum  (Latin for "book of friends") or liber amicorum

Buck with Bright Eyes and Soaring Antlers, Beautifully Rendered 19th Century Graphite Drawing flower specimen These sets have become quiteI'm continuing to dig out of a stack of paper acquired from a favorite PA paper dealer when I was down for the Allentown show nice when you have a pile that keeps delighting you as you pull from it, with this stag greeting me square in the eye! Beautifully rendered in graphite and jumping right off the page, as if just startled in the woods and now acutely attentive, determining whether to flee. Feels like both portrait and metaphor. 6 5 8" x 5 1 2",