June Chase's 1850s Notebook / Sketchbook, Boston MA wooden watch stand Good vintage condition but I'd

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

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

which I think make for a certain kind of poetry

no matter at all

which I've not dug into deeply enough to understand exactly who or what is being satirized in this engraving

June Chase's 1850s Notebook / Sketchbook, Boston MA wooden watch stand Good vintage condition but I'dWhile 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