Lucy Jones' Mid 19th C. Sketchbooks (2) Filled with Graphite Drawings antique folk art inlaid box Viewers measure 4" x 1

Viewers measure 4" x 1 3/4" each

(How does one do this

and then buried deeper in the earth what I imagine is a giant tuber

and the front opening measures 8 1/4" x 10 1/4"

This is an especially nice example

Lucy Jones' Mid 19th C. Sketchbooks (2) Filled with Graphite Drawings antique folk art inlaid box Viewers measure 4" x 1This is quite a trove two 19th c. marble covered sketchbooks filled (every single page) with graphite drawings by a Lucy Jones, along with a hand written (undated) obituary tucked into one of them, which describes Lucy as a school teacher with a "cunning hand" in "housewifery, needlework, drawing and painting, flower culture and in many other occupations requiring taste and patience and skill of eye and touch." One of the sketchbooks shows Lucy