Sweet Old Partial Set of Modular House and Roof Blocks with A Few Hand-Drawn Additions for the academic What I love so much

What I love so much about this antique autograph book

11 1/8" l x 3 1/4" w x 4 1/2"t

leaving it behind

perhaps to fill with some shells and hang on the wall

Something about the angle of the burgundy curtain to his right and beams overhead and lines of the stool gives the composition a bit of a Diebenkorn feeling to me

Sweet Old Partial Set of Modular House and Roof Blocks with A Few Hand-Drawn Additions for the academic What I love so muchFound in Maine, these blocks are clearly quite old, and well worn; I find them beautiful and especially love the variety red roofs hard to come by! I found them in an old cardboard box, just these, certainly part of a once larger set. And with a few additions along the way: several plain wood blocks with sharpie drawn grids of windows, or windows and doors aspiring to fit right in. The oldest ones have gridded windows on all sides. Not a big set, but