Lovely Hand-drawn Surveyor's Map #1: 31 Acres, Lenoir County, NC, 1878 textured making me wonder if it

making me wonder if it wasn't someone just learning the game of chess who made it

and became known for finely rendered

as the central figure looks a bit like Casper the ghost

very well done repair on the loop end of one of the keys

Lovely Hand-drawn Surveyor's Map #1: 31 Acres, Lenoir County, NC, 1878 textured making me wonder if itI always have an eye out for hand drawn maps, but it is a rare and happy moment to find one with watercolor embellishment, and what a charmer, with lovely blue and purple star, excellent inked handwriting, and little hand pointing to a pine stump, too! (And a White Oak marking another corner.) As detailed at one end, it's a surveyors map, done by surveyor William A. Jones for Andrew J. Waller in 1878, showing a 31 acre plot on the south side of South