Lovely and Unusual Set of Antique Wooden Ribbon Spools with Hand Printed Paper Labels French faience The SS Martha's Vineyard was

The SS Martha's Vineyard was constructed by Bath Iron Works

and a very rare one to find

The windows are glass

Rhodes himself fulfills a lesson in perspective by filling the open pages of the pre-printed book with a summation of his life:

Lovely and Unusual Set of Antique Wooden Ribbon Spools with Hand Printed Paper Labels French faience The SS Martha's Vineyard wasThese I know came of the estate of a historic general store in Maine, and I just think they are the loveliest things, dating I'd guess to the late 19th century. They are were wooden spools for ribbon of various lengths and widths that ribbon long gone now but for one spool still wound in white satin ribbon. What makes them so lovely and special feeling through are the hand cut, hand printed paper labels adhered to each side, bearing lion and eagle and