June Chase's 1850s Notebook / Sketchbook, Boston MA british cartoon hinges good

hinges good

including for the its orientation to the corner of the block of wood from which it was carved

the bright blue ground

with an interior opening of 1" across

3 1/8" long x 1 1/8" wide x just shy of 1 1/2" tall

June Chase's 1850s Notebook / Sketchbook, Boston MA british cartoon hinges goodWhile 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