Old Wooden Bookends with 1853 Madison Square Hippodrome Engravings red and yellow wooden apple it measures approximately 7 inches

it measures approximately 7 inches at widest diameter

There are obvious losses to this super folky mosaic--mostly to the wooden beads that form a sort of halo around our woman at left

I purchased it at an estate sale in Waltham

Each coaster 3 3/4" in diameter x 3/8" thick

Old Wooden Bookends with 1853 Madison Square Hippodrome Engravings red and yellow wooden apple it measures approximately 7 inchesFound 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