Layered paper board, with white paper back. Outside layered with sheet of red marbled paper, covered with black, stippled, adhesive paper. White label with red ruled line. Label: "IMPROVED/SOLID SKETCH BLOCK/MANUFACTURERS AND IMPORTERS OF/ART MATERIALS/BOOKS ON ART/F.W.DEVOE & CO./NEW YORK./[IN TRIANGLE] D and 1852; [below triangle] Trade Mark./This Sketch Block consists of a number of sheets of paper, compressed so as to form an apparent solid substance, each sheet of which can be separated by the introduction of a pen-knife at the space left on the edge of the block, and passing it around, care being taken to insert the knife beneath one leaf at a time."

Beige pieces of uniformly sized machine-made paperboard, some showing signs of sun damage around the edges.

Machine-made Paperboard: Both pieces are coming apart at the edges; smaller piece sun damaged, both grayish beige. Linen: purplish colored linen, pasted linen side down.

Brown painted pine chest of drawers; drawers graduated from top to bottom; plain top hinged, opening to reveal flat space with compartments of various sizes; dovetail joinery; mounted on casters; paints, palettes, and other artistic equipment inside drawers.

Black wood handle with rounded ent, tapers to tip where ferrule should be.

Copper mount with long thin handle that bends at end and two prongs which curve into a circular head and are covered in plastic tubes.

Metal, three-pronged tongs.

Black wood handle with rounded end, tapers to tip where ferrule should be, with smaller (broken) wooden tip.

Black wood handle with rounded end, tapers to tip where ferrule should be, with smaller wooden tip.

Black wood handle with rounded end and three incised lines encircling base. Tapers to tip where ferrule should be.