R.F Abbott 1880 Hand-drawn Student Map wooden pestle )--took the trouble to drill

)--took the trouble to drill holes through the wood in order to stitch through its little pink nose and those great button eyes

with a nice patina to the dark wood

) a knotty old piece of wood with bark still on it

remains most in tact--really nice against the black painted wooden to which it is mounted

pictured in the images but listed separately

R.F Abbott 1880 Hand-drawn Student Map wooden pestle )--took the trouble to drillI'm not totally sure why I'm so into this old map, done by an R. F. Abbott in 1880 I think it might be seeing "Dominion of Canada" in writing, and that it makes the far north both look far more exciting that the United States! Surely this was a student assignment focused on islands, capes, and coastal waters, but the effect looking at it now is to make it feel like there is vast open territory yet to be explored, which makes me at least very hungry to