Antique Machinist's Leather Covered Notebook Filled with Blue Prints morse code guide This old hand-drawn lion looks

This old hand-drawn lion looks as if it must have been inspired by a heraldic one

1940s-early 50s

I think they make quite a nice grouping

but I think still has a hundred years on it at least

) Overall good condition with some light surface rusting

Antique Machinist's Leather Covered Notebook Filled with Blue Prints morse code guide This old hand-drawn lion looksI just can't resist things like this, which were central to the lives and work of the people who once owned them, this one seeming a bible of sorts for a George F. Ingham, who I presume was a machinist of some kind. Plus I just find the blue of these blueprints so gorgeous, and all the better for all of the very precise columns and grids of measurements and calculations packed onto them. Covering a spectrum of types of rivets, wire, screws, bolts,