June Chase's 1850s Notebook / Sketchbook, Boston MA wooden watch stand 16 3/4" x 16 1/8"

16 3/4" x 16 1/8" x 2 1/2" deep including nails

I rather like that the give the whole think the feel of a rocket about to launch into the heavens

this one being the 14th in the series

The glaze is a cool white

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

June Chase's 1850s Notebook / Sketchbook, Boston MA wooden watch stand 16 3/4" x 16 1/8"While 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