Elmer S. Hill, Haydenville MA, 1887 Christmas Eve Drawing schoolgirl lessons some scuffs and stains

some scuffs and stains

It appears to be solid copper

)  Surely it was screwed or nailed to a post as there are a bunch of holes down and around the center

in the meantime I would simply set or hang this beautiful tool somewhere I could see it and pick it up more than occasionally

Elmer S. Hill, Haydenville MA, 1887 Christmas Eve Drawing schoolgirl lessons some scuffs and stainsWay too early to think about Christmas I think, but it is starting to feel a bit cozy, and this is the last of the drawings I pulled from a wonderful notebook by Elmer S. Hill of Haydenville MA, so here is it. I really love that each of the four stockings hung by the fire is of a different size, and that the fire grate looks like a canoe, and I like that drawing of the chair best of all. Dated 1887 at upper right. I have found a definitive record of