Evocative Bookplate of Florida Key Sponge in Beautiful Old Wooden Frame carved crocodile but it's the bird drawing

but it's the bird drawing on the inside of the front cover that sold me

has a spine reinforced with black cloth tape

this box appears very much gold

All of the etched numbers remain completely readable

Hard to refuse happiness inducing creatures

Evocative Bookplate of Florida Key Sponge in Beautiful Old Wooden Frame carved crocodile but it's the bird drawingI'm not sure from whence it came or how it came to be someone very carefully cut out and mounted the information about the bookplate on the back of the frame but it has a bit of the feel of having been hung in an old library or museum or science department. I love the idea of hanging an image of a giant sponge right over one's desk or reading chair, and also love how it looks a bit like a brain, and also a portrait, with these little points at the top