George Washington, Presumed Antique Chromolithograph with Over Glazing transfer decorated with a few small tears

with a few small tears and darkening along the edges

He was a surveyor

I'm also not quite sure what is was made for--perhaps for spools of thread and thimbles

Each cufflink is marked 585 on the stem

George Washington, Presumed Antique Chromolithograph with Over Glazing transfer decorated with a few small tearsI believe this is a chromolithograph that was given a painterly varnish or similar, lending it the appearance of a painting, and making this George Washington seem as if he's been hanging around for a very long time. (I do think this is at least a hundred years old.) Though certainly flawed, as we are all, I'm feeling pretty nostalgic about our founding fathers right about now, and thought it good to have a George near at hand. 7 3 4 x 5 5 8 and in