Short fork: 10 1/4" x 2 5/8" x 1/2"
Another sweet little creature I just could not leave behind
are how it looks out a frame
and demonstrating the wonderful ingenuity and design sensibilities of their makers
Exciting times for Andrew at Camp Wonposet
Charles Rudy's 1854 Notebook with Trigonometry, Surveying & Astronomical Drawing, Lehigh Gap, PA bright blue Short fork: 10 1/4" xI didn't know it when I found this, but its maker, Charles Rudy (b. 1837)the super bright and very entrepreneurial youngest child of Durs Rudy (a Swiss immigrant who kept a store and hotel, became an organist and was also, interestingly, a talented fraktur artist)would become quite a notable figure not just in Lehigh Valley, PA, where he grew up, but in Paris, where he established a school that became a hub for international nobility and the sons and