Emma Ackerley 1870 Loose Sketchbook Pages + Cover carved bear The bowl measures approximately 5

The bowl measures approximately 5 1/4" in diameter x 3 1/2" tall (again

Quite a finely done watercolor

but strong enough to really pop on the wall)

I believe this one dates to the very late 19th century

I've found some other old cast iron horseshoes featuring shaking hands like this one-(though no other with this terrific heart and star at center)

Emma Ackerley 1870 Loose Sketchbook Pages + Cover carved bear The bowl measures approximately 5Emily Ackerley's 1870 sketchbook has seen better days what remains is the cover and 11 pages of drawings, filled on both front and back but I think some of these are pretty great (and she definitely thought so too, signing most every one, often a few times on a page.) I know from a couple of additional drawings I pulled from this is that Ackerley lived in Sing Sing, New York, the village on the Hudson which changed its name to Ossining in 1901 to