George Abbott's Model & Design Sketchbook with Lovely Hand-drawn Patterns antique bone spillikins Slide top slides on and

Slide top slides on and off just fine and holds closed

This one is especially nice as the top screws on and off tightly

argued that the use of hemp rope was outmoded

and one imagines these farm boys feeling about as trapped as these birds

The head attaches to a post and can be removed and turned

George Abbott's Model & Design Sketchbook with Lovely Hand-drawn Patterns antique bone spillikins Slide top slides on andOne of three 1870s notebooks today from a George Abbott of Boston, MA, this one not full (if only!), but with a handful of very lovely drawings in it, several very carefully done pattern designs included and one stand along gouache on paper pattern painting loose inside its pages that I'd frame straight away. Photos show pretty much all of the pages, with short descriptions below them identifying a few as drawn from geometric "solids models" and