Set of Three Hand-lettered Paper over Cardboard Tube Ends from Architectural Drawing Sets log chopping bookends ends Charming and also rather melancholic

Charming and also rather melancholic

The slide top opens and closes with easy but is not a tight fit

"greengage" (a variety of plums)

with post 19 1/8" t

just the sort of irregularity that adds to my love of these sorts of pieces

Set of Three Hand-lettered Paper over Cardboard Tube Ends from Architectural Drawing Sets log chopping bookends ends Charming and also rather melancholicThese were once the end caps on rolls of hand drafted architectural drawings. I love them for the beautiful inked lettering, and as evocative found objects evoking rich and painterly images of a Snake River and a Maroon Creek and a very tall Tower. And I really like that each feels very much like its own thing (i. e. the lettering on Tower feels exactly right for and specific to Tower.) Each appopx 5" in diameter. All in good condition, with scattered