Cottage and Scissors, Sketchbook Drawing by Emma Ackerley, Sing Sing New York, 1870 large open sign and the mother straight ahead

and the mother straight ahead in the opposite direction

I've been looking a long time for an antique shellwork box to really love

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which allowed for clicking through multiple images on rotating cardboard disks

Stanley and a few other tool makers produced beautiful bone rulers

Cottage and Scissors, Sketchbook Drawing by Emma Ackerley, Sing Sing New York, 1870 large open sign and the mother straight aheadPlenty of foxing and stains on this old sketchbook page of drawings done by one Emma Ackerley in 1870, but I love the drawings so much theres no way I could pass it by, and I find this combo of cottage with green tile roof and open scissors below strangely satisfying. Great details too, especially the shutters and curtains of the cottage, points on the picket fence, and tiny little pump out front. Signed not once but three times by our Emma, dated