1910s Pocket Notebook with Portrait and Curious Mix! phonograph mid-17th century English stump work

mid-17th century English stump work embroidery--a complex type of needlework incorporating a variety of stitches and materials (these were very early "mixed media" works) rendered in a raised-work style

or kick a leg forward

The box measures 4" long x 1 7/8" deep x 1 1/4" tall

certainly seeming to reflect the influence of Calder and Miro

1910s Pocket Notebook with Portrait and Curious Mix! phonograph mid-17th century English stump workA curious little pocket notebook, which I love for its combination of contents the cutout photo portrait, with fraternity affiliation just below, and then pasted in lists of measures, recipes for making animal feed, fire alarm codes, and then, very carefully written on gridded paper, what I've figured out is a list of winning race horses. Methinks this young man was, most passionately, a betting man, even while studying agriculture at Hamilton