RR's Useful and Great Looking Monogrammed Metal Clipboard with 1960s Architectural Plans Found Inside antique fraternal just contribute to its presence

just contribute to its presence and richness as an object with a long history

I do believe the former

my favorite and the most useful of all

Great paint job

Some wear/aging to the gold on the frame

RR's Useful and Great Looking Monogrammed Metal Clipboard with 1960s Architectural Plans Found Inside antique fraternal just contribute to its presenceI found this one at a flea market in Lancaster County, PA, with the bright orange stencil painted RR first making me think it was once carried by a railroad man. It appears to have been the clipboard of an architect or builder though, at least when last possessed which appears to have been in 1973, with an order for plywood, some architectural plans, and some blank sheets of graph paper inside. Made of aluminum, with the front hinged to the back along