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The cover depicts a sepia photograph of two sailboats with crew on a lake with the sails (not square) colored dark blue. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Depicts three scythes with same handle but different blades, viz., a lightening bolt that evolves to a sickle from left to right. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

There are three line drawings of British naval ships on the card, Ajax, Exeter, and Achilles, -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Each page consists of an engraving of a sail boat or objects related to a sail boat along with a brief aphorism. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The card depicts the phrase, "Clinker Built" in black outlined, white letters with a fractured appearance from being drawn upon the slats of the boat hull. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Published on Christmas day 1994. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The image on the cover of the card depicts a camouflaged line drawing of a warship. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This book done on Christmas 1993 consists of pictures of a named rose, one to a page, that is also captioned by the Scottish numbers for a boat including the port letters for various harbors. The latter is printed as a key at the end of the book. The significance of these captions with regard to their names and the boat numbers is unclear. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The image depicts the Arrosoir (Watering-can) among flowers, the name of the day in the Republican calendar that the Robespierrists were gullotined during the French revolution. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This proposal for Bernhard and Marie Starkmann depicts an oar wrapped in a fishing net stuck into a mound of rocks with the caption, "The Wanderings of Ulysses." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The illustrations were adapted from drawings made by Claude Lorrain. The project was proposed for Dinah Thompson. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Three oval stone plaques are added to three trees in a quiet woodland call attention to the peaceful surroundings. The plaques are inscribed with the words SILENCE, SCHWEIGEN and SILENZIO.. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This project makes use of one of the giant blocks of stone that lie abandoned in Tout Quarry Portland. The inscription is derived from Virgil's Aeneid Book III: "Gods of the Earth, Gods of the Sea, Gods who rule over storms, give us a wind to help our voyage, and may your breat bring us aid." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This is a proposal for a memorial to the poet, Annette von Droste-Hulshoff (1797-1848) who lived in Munster, Germany. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This is a proposal for a memorial to the poet, Annette von Droste-Hulshoff (1797-1848), who lived in Munster, Germany. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The cover depicts the Flower Class corvette, Migonette, at sea during WWII with red markings on its hull signifying rust. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The illustration by Hincks depicts a reaper blade that evolves to a thunderbolt over three images. It has a related caption regarding the French revolution. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.