Calender, 1856, Dramatically Inked Fraktur Bookplate West Virginia artist with wonderfully bright eyes

with wonderfully bright eyes

14 inches tall by about 4 inches wide with arms down and 2" deep

with turned wood handle

though color is brighter and bolder in person

A few chips around the bottom edge and a couple of hairline cracks

Calender, 1856, Dramatically Inked Fraktur Bookplate West Virginia artist with wonderfully bright eyesI'm very tempted to get this one in a simple frame and keep it for myself forever possessing a drama and gravitas that far exceeds it scale, and feeling as if it holds all of the weight of time and its passage in those very heavily black inked letters, which have burned through the paper here and there. The bookplate of a Christina Kern, 1856, found in Pennsylvania.(Love that lonely comma after the 1856, too.) And note the spelling of Calender with an