SOLD Martha, Walter and Elfredia's Brushes with Carved Names and Fancy Inlays hiker and dog Of course it is the

Of course it is the "Keep hands OFF this Book" written by a GR in blue crayon on the inside front cover of this old German language school book that sold me on it

others show some rusting to the brass but all are totally useable and interlock

I’ve gotten really into old landscapes that were ethereal to begin with and which age has made all the more so

with a beautiful warm dry wood patina

SOLD Martha, Walter and Elfredia's Brushes with Carved Names and Fancy Inlays hiker and dog Of course it is theSo fun, and clearly so much love invested in these. And hard to look at these and not want to know all about Martha and Walter and Elfredia I'd say good fodder for a short story. The full scale and general nature of them makes me imagine that they were not made by a father for his children, say, but rather perhaps for a group of three siblings still living together in their old age who knows?! How wonderfully crafted they were in any event, late 19th