Antique Machinist's Leather Covered Notebook Filled with Blue Prints wounded carving with drawings on both sides

with drawings on both sides of each page

Of course I really love this board for its make-do nature

and a slit carved in one side allow for the slide to create a divided interior (when slat is pushed in

There seems to be just a tiny bit of warping to the wood of the lid such that it sits just a tiny bit higher on one side - very minor

Mongol and Afghan invaders

Antique Machinist's Leather Covered Notebook Filled with Blue Prints wounded carving with drawings on both sidesI just can't resist things like this, which were central to the lives and work of the people who once owned them, this one seeming a bible of sorts for a George F. Ingham, who I presume was a machinist of some kind. Plus I just find the blue of these blueprints so gorgeous, and all the better for all of the very precise columns and grids of measurements and calculations packed onto them. Covering a spectrum of types of rivets, wire, screws, bolts,