EW Hall’s Scale of Values Art School Exercise bakelit I only recently discovered Spillikins

I only recently discovered Spillikins

but now it makes perfect sense this would be the right tool for stirring and lifting clothes from washtubs

It not only features a great rendering of a burning pipe and the text

Plenty of foxing and stains on this old sketchbook page of drawings done by one Emma Ackerley in 1870

5 1/8" t x 4 3/8" w x 3" deep

EW Hall’s Scale of Values Art School Exercise bakelit I only recently discovered SpillikinsThis is one of two color studies Im listing done by an EW Hall long ago for art class, this one representing gradations between black and white. The watercolored rounds are cutouts, pasted down. What I especially like about this "scale of values", as noted by a teacher at bottom right, is that Hall oriented the scale upside down starting with black at top rather than white and why not?! 11 x 14 done on heavyweight sketchbook paper. The paper shows