Colton's 1872 Geography Primer with Excellent Endpaper Drawing of Two Ships art without intent To me its got a

To me its got a bit of a William Hawkins energy to it-- completely alive

) And the series of needlepoint borders show off more of its maker’s skills

high-gloss Japanese Natsume--or tea caddy--is not an antique

I've never seen such precision paper pricking as here--page after page of nothing but tiny punctures to the white pages

with just a few minor stains on a few

Colton's 1872 Geography Primer with Excellent Endpaper Drawing of Two Ships art without intent To me its got aMy habit of opening old school books to check their endpages for drawings is a habit I think I will maintain until my dying day and it will always hold a sense of excitement for me. Even more exciting to open one and find a full page drawing there! (And one could draw some conclusions from them too in my experience, often the best are found in geography books, which seem particularly to have set young minds to imagine setting sail to distant lands and