Scarce Copy of Williams & Packard's Original Gems of Penmanship, 1867, with Inked Calligraphy Dedication and Fantastic Alphabets Native pottery I am a sucker for

I am a sucker for a red cross patch or pin

Mississippi and  Lumberton

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

quite radiant

wheel 2 5/8" in diameter

Scarce Copy of Williams & Packard's Original Gems of Penmanship, 1867, with Inked Calligraphy Dedication and Fantastic Alphabets Native pottery I am a sucker forThis 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,