Abstract Language, Margarete Gibbons' 1902 Completely Full Stenography Notebook handmade copper box The shape of the tower

The shape of the tower of greens and flowers keeps making me think of partridges in pear trees

In good condition

1900 Milton Bradley Kindergarten Blocks sets designed by Friedrich Froebel

I purchased it at an estate sale in Weston

it  would make a terrific paperweight on a stylish desk or a subtle yet striking addition to a grouping of any manner of interesting objects

Abstract Language, Margarete Gibbons' 1902 Completely Full Stenography Notebook handmade copper box The shape of the towerI find stenography shorthand fascinating, though I can't decipher a single symbol! Pretty much a lost form at this point, shorthand was is an abbreviated symbolic writing method that was developed as a means of increasing speed and brevity in writing, especially used in taking dictation. Of course technology has largely obliterated the need for it, and the capacity to decipher it which makes these pages of intensive mark making now like floating