and for me all about the great color scheme (especially that yellow face) and aging of the paint
this piece by Andersen Design Studio
It was cut somewhat irregularly
and branching in a few spots to terminate in chip carved points
it appears to be quite an old one
June Chase's 1850s Notebook / Sketchbook, Boston MA vintage color-aid standard set and for me all aboutWhile some of the graphite drawings in it show some smudging and softening no great surprise, being 170 or so years old this, I think, is quite a marvelous thing, both as a document of pre Civil War, 2nd Great Awakening era New England, and for the drawings themselves. It appears to have been the notebook of a June Chase of Boston, MA, who I believe was a member of the Chase family of New England, descending from early American settlers Aquila Chase