George Abbott's Model & Design Sketchbook with Lovely Hand-drawn Patterns antique bone spillikins The head attaches to a

The head attaches to a post and can be removed and turned

Slide top slides on and off just fine and holds closed

With those two big (relatively speaking) silver wheels perfectly punctuating the symmetry

I am not expert in the least

George Abbott's Model & Design Sketchbook with Lovely Hand-drawn Patterns antique bone spillikins The head attaches to aOne of three 1870s notebooks today from a George Abbott of Boston, MA, this one not full (if only!), but with a handful of very lovely drawings in it, several very carefully done pattern designs included and one stand along gouache on paper pattern painting loose inside its pages that I'd frame straight away. Photos show pretty much all of the pages, with short descriptions below them identifying a few as drawn from geometric "solids models" and