Cottage and Scissors, Sketchbook Drawing by Emma Ackerley, Sing Sing New York, 1870 large open sign I've been looking a long

I've been looking a long time for an antique shellwork box to really love

and the mother straight ahead in the opposite direction

" which was featured in a nationally juried exhibition organized by the National Basketry Organization and presented at Ghost Ranch in Abiquiu

and is four layers deep on its sides and three on its back

2" x 2" x 2" and in very good antique (I do believe) condition

Cottage and Scissors, Sketchbook Drawing by Emma Ackerley, Sing Sing New York, 1870 large open sign I've been looking a longPlenty of foxing and stains on this old sketchbook page of drawings done by one Emma Ackerley in 1870, but I love the drawings so much theres no way I could pass it by, and I find this combo of cottage with green tile roof and open scissors below strangely satisfying. Great details too, especially the shutters and curtains of the cottage, points on the picket fence, and tiny little pump out front. Signed not once but three times by our Emma, dated