Emma Ackerley 1870 Loose Sketchbook Pages + Cover carved bear and the Tel Aviv Museum

and the Tel Aviv Museum

I've found some other old cast iron horseshoes featuring shaking hands like this one-(though no other with this terrific heart and star at center)

including perhaps a low budget Sci-Fi film

I am not entirely certain if this doll is vintage or antique

Emma Ackerley 1870 Loose Sketchbook Pages + Cover carved bear and the Tel Aviv MuseumEmily Ackerley's 1870 sketchbook has seen better days what remains is the cover and 11 pages of drawings, filled on both front and back but I think some of these are pretty great (and she definitely thought so too, signing most every one, often a few times on a page.) I know from a couple of additional drawings I pulled from this is that Ackerley lived in Sing Sing, New York, the village on the Hudson which changed its name to Ossining in 1901 to