Antique Crochet Samples Album on Red Cotton, Chock Full vintage brush with great patina One hinge is attached by

One hinge is attached by a fitted wire rather than the original pin and one corner of the box is slightly bent (both well documented in the photos)

Him: 1 1/8" x 1"

just looking at a pile of these beautiful bone chips

The wire on the backside it strong and a bit of a challenge bend as desired

it appears the lines of his suit were emphasized with hand-drawing

Antique Crochet Samples Album on Red Cotton, Chock Full vintage brush with great patina One hinge is attached byI've bought and sold a couple of crochet sample books in the past, but it's been quite a while since I found one I really loved. In this case it is especially the pages of horizontal trim densely arranged on the pages like lines of text in a book that really sold me; feels positively semiotic! And really a lot of diversity and complexity to the samples all the way through, with each page well composed and fully packed. And of course the hand dyed red