Lucy Jones' Mid 19th C. Sketchbooks (2) Filled with Graphite Drawings antique folk art inlaid box Viewers measure 4" x 1

Viewers measure 4" x 1 3/4" each

The name reflected a merger of two aspects of ceramic design--art and engineering--with projects including studio pottery pieces made by Lee

This is an especially nice example

" a hapless fellow fallen into the water while catching eels in "Bob in for Eeels

I have not touched the wood on this piece

Lucy Jones' Mid 19th C. Sketchbooks (2) Filled with Graphite Drawings antique folk art inlaid box Viewers measure 4" x 1This is quite a trove two 19th c. marble covered sketchbooks filled (every single page) with graphite drawings by a Lucy Jones, along with a hand written (undated) obituary tucked into one of them, which describes Lucy as a school teacher with a "cunning hand" in "housewifery, needlework, drawing and painting, flower culture and in many other occupations requiring taste and patience and skill of eye and touch." One of the sketchbooks shows Lucy