Lovely Hand-drawn Surveyor's Map #3: 24 Acres. Woodington Township, NC, 1896 R evoking all the romanticism of

evoking all the romanticism of working through the night by candlelight--and with that great looping line among the ink bottles and pen nib seemingly added just for flourish

the second endpaper and front and first at back) are loose

A bit of surface loss here and there - shot under magnification

Embroidery itself: 5 3/8” x 2 1/16”

all in good sturdy and stable condition and easy to be stacked and arranged all sorts of ways

Lovely Hand-drawn Surveyor's Map #3: 24 Acres. Woodington Township, NC, 1896 R evoking all the romanticism ofI always have an eye out for hand drawn maps, but it is a rare and happy moment to find one with watercolor embellishment, and what a charmer, with big red and green compass rose star with pointing arrows and feathers, excellent inked handwriting, hand pointing to the corner of Lightwood Knot Road, and long hatched railroad, too! As detailed on reverse, it's a surveyors map, done by surveyor William A. Jones for Harvey F. Waller in 1896, showing a 24