Forest Craft Guild Arts & Crafts Letter Holder by Forest Mann, 1910s agate and gold largely for the purpose of

largely for the purpose of visiting their wonderful gift shop

The book plate is from a 1870 French volume I believe titled "Le Ciel" (the Sky)

possibly a child's rocker

and the fabric and stretching around the edges

What a character

Forest Craft Guild Arts & Crafts Letter Holder by Forest Mann, 1910s agate and gold largely for the purpose ofThis is a very lovely Arts & Crafts letter holder by Forest Mann, who operated Forest Craft Guild in Grand Rapid Michigan, 1905 1918. An elegant form with perfect patina, and quintessentially Arts & Crafts triangle shaped cutouts with slightly rounded corners along the front. Born in 1879, Mann attended the Pratt Institute, NY, where he was a student of Arthur Wesley Dow. After graduating, he taught Arts & Crafts classes in Dayton, Ohio, and founded