Kenneth Playfair's 1918 School Drawing Book Filled with Graphite and Watercolor Drawings rings it still swivels smoothy but

it still swivels smoothy but is a hair off flush when closed

or perhaps to incorporate into something new

though I'd probably set them in an arrangement of objects or hang them somewhere--and am rather fantasizing about a whole wall of these

and old Jugtown pieces I think have a special feeling about them

Photos do not do this justice

Kenneth Playfair's 1918 School Drawing Book Filled with Graphite and Watercolor Drawings rings it still swivels smoothy butPure joy finding this one amid a pile at an antiques shop in New Hampshire this week eaily overlooked, but I've developed a special radar for things like this! All but one page that is signed V. McClure appear to be the work of a young Kenneth Playfair (such a great name), with the year 1918 on the cover, but some of the drawings inside dated 1923. The pages are perforated, and most have come partially or all the way loose making them all the easier