Gloriously Colorful Old Velvet Piecework Seven Point Star Paris sketchbook with light scratches and scuffs

with light scratches and scuffs all over and one straight vertical hairline crack in one piece of inlay (as pictured)

4 5/8" tall

Great patina

Take your watch off

with a finely and wonderfully carved wooden back (oak

Gloriously Colorful Old Velvet Piecework Seven Point Star Paris sketchbook with light scratches and scuffsI found this one at the Rhinebeck show last weekend and thought it fantastically beautiful like the sort of 19th c. geometric watercolors or ink drawings I am always hoping for but rarely finding, and all the better for being stitched together of lushly colored, carefully cut pieces of velvet. And the flip side is as good as the front in a different sort of way, showing the backing as sewn together of pieces of what I believe is sack cloth, some