Early 20th Century Dutch Notebook with Colored Pencil Darning Diagrams and Notes legs This old plaster Lady Victory

This old plaster Lady Victory mold seems (hopefully

from old corner mounts

was somewhat unevenly trimmed

glued and silver painted on one side

American Express was founded in 1850 as a  freight shipping and express mail dispatcher

Early 20th Century Dutch Notebook with Colored Pencil Darning Diagrams and Notes legs This old plaster Lady VictoryAs a lover of antique Dutch darning samplers, I was especially delighted to find this Dutch notebook dated 1906, which contains a series drawings diagrams, together with handwritten notes, detailing methods for executing a series of darns. As abstract drawings, rendered in colored pencil, they're quite lovely things (as are darns themselves!), but understanding each drawn line and loop as representing a thread I think makes them even better. Pretty