Scarce Copy of Williams & Packard's Original Gems of Penmanship, 1867, with Inked Calligraphy Dedication and Fantastic Alphabets Native pottery with chicken on one side

with chicken on one side and egg on the other

quite radiant

with a perfect marriage between the formal qualities of the photograph and its content

I am a sucker for a red cross patch or pin

original paper litho liner around his neck

Scarce Copy of Williams & Packard's Original Gems of Penmanship, 1867, with Inked Calligraphy Dedication and Fantastic Alphabets Native pottery with chicken on one sideThis is a scarce one, and a significant one, having given rise to a whole lot of the fancy Spencerian calligraphy drawings one finds out there, and a whole lot of elaborate lettering too, with dozens of alphabets included in it. It is an 1867 copy of Williams & Packard's Original Gems of Penmanship, printed by Major & Knapp, 440 Broadway, NYC this copy presented to a Sarah Thresher as an award for "the best Specimen & Business Penmanship, May 31,