George Abbott's Model & Design Sketchbook with Lovely Hand-drawn Patterns antique bone spillikins The head attaches to a

The head attaches to a post and can be removed and turned

and which a little research has taught me is a late 18th/early 19th century Italian Renaissance Revival marquetry panel

(One can manually move a few of them into different positions

and one imagines these farm boys feeling about as trapped as these birds

George Abbott's Model & Design Sketchbook with Lovely Hand-drawn Patterns antique bone spillikins The head attaches to aOne of three 1870s notebooks today from a George Abbott of Boston, MA, this one not full (if only!), but with a handful of very lovely drawings in it, several very carefully done pattern designs included and one stand along gouache on paper pattern painting loose inside its pages that I'd frame straight away. Photos show pretty much all of the pages, with short descriptions below them identifying a few as drawn from geometric "solids models" and