Total Solar Eclipse Austrian Journal of Popular Astronomy Bookplate, c. 1876 figural candlestick It was purchased from an

It was purchased from an estate sale that included a wonderful collection of mid-century and contemporary ceramics from Japan

my first thought was that it would make a great line-making and design tool

so plenty weighty to keep even a long row of big art books tightly upright

7 1/4" long x 1" wide x 3/4" deep

or to just hang from a nail or hook on the wall

Total Solar Eclipse Austrian Journal of Popular Astronomy Bookplate, c. 1876 figural candlestick It was purchased from anThis is an antique color lithograph book plate from a volume of Zeitschrift fr populre Astronomi (Journal of Popular Astronomy), published by Lith Anst, Graz (Austria), c. 1876. The image itself was created by Rudolf Falb (1838 1903), an Austrian popularizer of natural history, who also popularized the concept of extraterrestrial influences on geophysical phenomena! The eclipsed sun is jet black, with super rich red for the solar flares. 8 7 8"" x 6".