R.F Abbott 1880 Hand-drawn Student Map wooden pestle or just add a pop

or just add a pop of cuteness here and there

but well loved he certainly should be at this point

)--took the trouble to drill holes through the wood in order to stitch through its little pink nose and those great button eyes

) a knotty old piece of wood with bark still on it

R.F Abbott 1880 Hand-drawn Student Map wooden pestle or just add a popI'm not totally sure why I'm so into this old map, done by an R. F. Abbott in 1880 I think it might be seeing "Dominion of Canada" in writing, and that it makes the far north both look far more exciting that the United States! Surely this was a student assignment focused on islands, capes, and coastal waters, but the effect looking at it now is to make it feel like there is vast open territory yet to be explored, which makes me at least very hungry to