Charles Rudy's 1854 Notebook with Trigonometry, Surveying & Astronomical Drawing, Lehigh Gap, PA nesting dolls This circa 1970s Mexican folk

This circa 1970s Mexican folk art triple vase or triple candleholder--with the most beatific face I can imagine--is unsigned

Smallest approx 1 7/16" l x 1 1/16" t

which looks to have been the first decade of the 19th century based on the dates appearing in several equations

I just can't resist these fancy inlaid treen darning eggs when I come across them--so pretty

I believe the "antes" is branded/burned into the surface of the wood

Charles Rudy's 1854 Notebook with Trigonometry, Surveying & Astronomical Drawing, Lehigh Gap, PA nesting dolls This circa 1970s Mexican folkI 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