Striking (and Evocatively Face-Like) Pair of Antique Framer's Sample Boards, Behind Glass shoe shaped --so they seem to have

--so they seem to have lived their whole lives near home

but also for the moody manner of the painting

a gorgeous series of pages dedicated to geometry

instructions for making transfers

giving a great sense of immediacy to it as a memorial of sorts

Striking (and Evocatively Face-Like) Pair of Antique Framer's Sample Boards, Behind Glass shoe shaped --so they seem to haveI bought these last summer from a dealer in Mid Coast Maine with wonderful things and a keen eye for the graphic I paid what I'm asking but wanted to enjoy them awhile, and while offering them up now won't be sorry to keep them forever. They were are display salesman sample boards showing a variety of metal (I believe largely brass) edgings for round, oval and rectangular picture frames. Photos don't do justice, but I find them very beautiful things,