Pocket Watch at 2:43, Antique Copper Print Block on Wood folk art curiosity lending texture

lending texture

and this one provides a better grip

It features beautiful Spencerian + Fraktur headers throughout plus tons of geometric diagrams carefully drawn with compass and ruler

This wonderful old handmade wooden house reminds me of old German Erzgebirge villages

Pocket Watch at 2:43, Antique Copper Print Block on Wood folk art curiosity lending textureI like old print blocks that are good just as objects though this could certainly still be inked and used and clocks of all sorts always feel resonant to me: time ticking, time suspended, time carried forward from one period to another, and here a specific moment: 2: 43 and 22 seconds! (And, perhaps in a manner a bit like the question of whether the glass is half empty or half full, whether one imagines a. m. or p. m might have larger implications!) 2