with a super long pull out drawer
but now it would make a terrific jewelry box
Framed as found in a solid wood frame (from which it could easily be removed)
the funerary wreath surrounding a photograph of him
and demonstrating the wonderful ingenuity and design sensibilities of their makers
Charles Rudy's 1854 Notebook with Trigonometry, Surveying & Astronomical Drawing, Lehigh Gap, PA bright blue with a super long pullI didn't know it when I found this, but its maker, Charles Rudy (b. 1837)the super bright and very entrepreneurial youngest child of Durs Rudy (a Swiss immigrant who kept a store and hotel, became an organist and was also, interestingly, a talented fraktur artist)would become quite a notable figure not just in Lehigh Valley, PA, where he grew up, but in Paris, where he established a school that became a hub for international nobility and the sons and