June Chase's 1850s Notebook / Sketchbook, Boston MA wooden watch stand this one being the 14th

this one being the 14th in the series

and numbered 36 from an edition of 95

Good vintage condition but I'd guess he was carved some time ago--there is a bit of aging and darkening to wood around the edges and in a few other spots

It is just gorgeously constructed

June Chase's 1850s Notebook / Sketchbook, Boston MA wooden watch stand this one being the 14thWhile some of the graphite drawings in it show some smudging and softening no great surprise, being 170 or so years old this, I think, is quite a marvelous thing, both as a document of pre Civil War, 2nd Great Awakening era New England, and for the drawings themselves. It appears to have been the notebook of a June Chase of Boston, MA, who I believe was a member of the Chase family of New England, descending from early American settlers Aquila Chase