Charles Rudy's 1854 Notebook with Trigonometry, Surveying & Astronomical Drawing, Lehigh Gap, PA nesting dolls Plus the spark-filled black sky

Plus the spark-filled black sky

but deep enough to use a small serving bowl

I am pretty certain this sweet

Smallest approx 1 7/16" l x 1 1/16" t

I believe the "antes" is branded/burned into the surface of the wood

Charles Rudy's 1854 Notebook with Trigonometry, Surveying & Astronomical Drawing, Lehigh Gap, PA nesting dolls Plus the spark-filled black skyI didn't know it when I found this, but its maker, Charles Rudy (b. 1837)the super bright and very entrepreneurial youngest child of Durs Rudy (a Swiss immigrant who kept a store and hotel, became an organist and was also, interestingly, a talented fraktur artist)would become quite a notable figure not just in Lehigh Valley, PA, where he grew up, but in Paris, where he established a school that became a hub for international nobility and the sons and