Old Wooden Bookends with 1853 Madison Square Hippodrome Engravings diamond pattern Not for everyone I’m sure

Not for everyone I’m sure

should one wish to animate it but situating a figure or two inside

Sometime one just needs a big dose of luscious orange

and with the seaweed beautifully arranged into a large cross

Old Wooden Bookends with 1853 Madison Square Hippodrome Engravings diamond pattern Not for everyone I’m sureFound the other day in New Hampshire, I thing these are interesting, and quite beautiful, too. The scallop shaped bookends feature 1853 engravings (one exterior one interior) of the Hippodrome on Madison Square (known as Franconi's Hippodrome), which appear to have been trimmed from the original prints, mounted to wood and varnished over, looking now very much like the surfaces of early lacquered snuff boxes. Franconi's Hippodrome opened May 2, 1853