Old Wooden Bookends with 1853 Madison Square Hippodrome Engravings rolling toy I especially love the little

I especially love the little flyer in profile on the one I've got turned on its side

She attended the Brighton College of Art

which clearly he had mastered

a good luck charm

Old Wooden Bookends with 1853 Madison Square Hippodrome Engravings rolling toy I especially love the littleFound the other day in New Hampshire, I thing these are interesting, and quite beautiful, too. The scallop shaped bookends feature 1853 engravings (one exterior one interior) of the Hippodrome on Madison Square (known as Franconi's Hippodrome), which appear to have been trimmed from the original prints, mounted to wood and varnished over, looking now very much like the surfaces of early lacquered snuff boxes. Franconi's Hippodrome opened May 2, 1853