Elmer S. Hill, Haydenville MA, 1887 Christmas Eve Drawing schoolgirl lessons with no splits or cracks

with no splits or cracks or chips

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

I purchased it in this frame

akin to stone lions or sphinx's but carved of wood--and most welcoming

It appears to be solid copper

Elmer S. Hill, Haydenville MA, 1887 Christmas Eve Drawing schoolgirl lessons with no splits or cracksWay 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