Charles Rudy's 1854 Notebook with Trigonometry, Surveying & Astronomical Drawing, Lehigh Gap, PA nesting dolls I believe the "antes" is

I believe the "antes" is branded/burned into the surface of the wood

which looks to have been the first decade of the 19th century based on the dates appearing in several equations

Easiest though would be to just set it on a shelf

he was made Honorary Curator of the Department of Oology at the Colorado Museum of Natural History

This circa 1970s Mexican folk art triple vase or triple candleholder--with the most beatific face I can imagine--is unsigned

Charles Rudy's 1854 Notebook with Trigonometry, Surveying & Astronomical Drawing, Lehigh Gap, PA nesting dolls I believe the "antes" isI didn't know it when I found this, but its maker, Charles Rudy (b. 1837)the super bright and very entrepreneurial youngest child of Durs Rudy (a Swiss immigrant who kept a store and hotel, became an organist and was also, interestingly, a talented fraktur artist)would become quite a notable figure not just in Lehigh Valley, PA, where he grew up, but in Paris, where he established a school that became a hub for international nobility and the sons and