Elmer S. Hill, Haydenville MA, 1887 Christmas Eve Drawing schoolgirl lessons The set is complete and

The set is complete and in very good shape

with no splits or cracks or chips

What I really love about it is the way the triangular motif plays out across the top and sides

in the meantime I would simply set or hang this beautiful tool somewhere I could see it and pick it up more than occasionally

Elmer S. Hill, Haydenville MA, 1887 Christmas Eve Drawing schoolgirl lessons The set is complete andWay too early to think about Christmas I think, but it is starting to feel a bit cozy, and this is the last of the drawings I pulled from a wonderful notebook by Elmer S. Hill of Haydenville MA, so here is it. I really love that each of the four stockings hung by the fire is of a different size, and that the fire grate looks like a canoe, and I like that drawing of the chair best of all. Dated 1887 at upper right. I have found a definitive record of