Survival on Land and Sea, 2015
Compiled by the Ethnogeographic Board and the Smithsonian Institution for the United States Office of Naval Intelligence, 1943.
Binding: 1.6 x 12 x 14.2 cm Glass jug: 16.1 x 29.2 cm
This binding of “Survival on Land and Sea”, while representing a vessel itself, is literally found within a vessel. Inside the corked jug, this WWII-era seafarers’ manual for surviving after a shipwreck goes one step beyond a message in a bottle.
Opening: “Men Against the Sea”, Making Fish hooks, pp. 14-15.
Three-piece case binding with blue and green leather spine and fore-edge trim. Spine blind tooled and titled in gold. Salvaged German marbled paper sides reminiscent of seafoam. St. Armand Denim Blue endsheets. Sewn all-along inside the bottle, over two parchment strips. Black sewn silk endband. Rigid cover boards composed of a sandwich of 4-ply matboard strips between 10-point sheets. Bound entirely within an intact 1-gallon Anchor Hocking bottle.
Opening: “Men Against the Sea”, Making Fish hooks, pp. 14-15.
Three-piece case binding with blue and green leather spine and fore-edge trim. Spine blind tooled and titled in gold. Salvaged German marbled paper sides reminiscent of seafoam. St. Armand Denim Blue endsheets. Sewn all-along inside the bottle, over two parchment strips. Black sewn silk endband. Rigid cover boards composed of a sandwich of 4-ply matboard strips between 10-point sheets. Bound entirely within an intact 1-gallon Anchor Hocking bottle.