Italy: Gorgeous c. 1840 Ink and Watercolor Hand-drawn Map vintage spokeshave complete with pencil-drawn outlines on

complete with pencil-drawn outlines on the uncarved end

with no cracks or breaks

" made well into the 20th century and used to separate rice grains from husks

I've rarely met a little treen box I didn't like

with their sculptural forms and interesting color palettes—and the surface of these is wonderfully alligatored to boot

Italy: Gorgeous c. 1840 Ink and Watercolor Hand-drawn Map vintage spokeshave complete with pencil-drawn outlines onI forever have an eye out for hand drawn maps of all sorts, and especially ink and watercolor ones of this ilk, which I believe were done in school as part of geography class (can you imagine?!) These (this is one of five I am listing) I purchased from a seller near to me in Massachusetts, who dates them to 1840 or so based on a map of the United States done by the same person, which included Texas Territory (Texas became a state in 1845). To me these