Emma Ackerley 1870 Loose Sketchbook Pages + Cover carved bear I believe this one dates

I believe this one dates to the very late 19th century

The bowl measures approximately 5 1/4" in diameter x 3 1/2" tall (again

I've found some other old cast iron horseshoes featuring shaking hands like this one-(though no other with this terrific heart and star at center)

but still bright and shiny and in great shape

Emma Ackerley 1870 Loose Sketchbook Pages + Cover carved bear I believe this one datesEmily Ackerley's 1870 sketchbook has seen better days what remains is the cover and 11 pages of drawings, filled on both front and back but I think some of these are pretty great (and she definitely thought so too, signing most every one, often a few times on a page.) I know from a couple of additional drawings I pulled from this is that Ackerley lived in Sing Sing, New York, the village on the Hudson which changed its name to Ossining in 1901 to