US Patent No. 335579 Field Game Marker by A. Gutzloe February 9 1886 lincoln portrait its curving seams and stitched

its curving seams and stitched panels drawn in the years when felted spheres still arrived loose in tins and a proper cover was the difference between a tournament ball and a backyard relic

Mädler's Alcyone Theory charts a heresy of the heavens: Johann Mädler's conjecture that all creation wheels around Alcyone

Reach's 1939 schematic dissects the humble play ball into its tessellated panels

The Statue of Liberty 1878 — a documentary engraving from the years when Bartholdi's colossus existed only in fragments

US Patent No. 335579 Field Game Marker by A. Gutzloe February 9 1886 lincoln portrait its curving seams and stitchedUs Patent No. 335579 Field Game Marker by A. Gutzloe February 9 1886 a small, stake driven sentinel from the rough and tumble dawn of American field sports, when boundary lines were still negotiated by gentlemen and groundskeepers. Gutzloe's inventor's diagram renders the marker with the quiet precision of a man convinced the game itself depended on knowing exactly where it ended. About the Source Bella Frye sources sports artifacts from American