Abstract Language, Margarete Gibbons' 1902 Completely Full Stenography Notebook handmade copper box I purchased it at an

I purchased it at an estate sale in Weston

0 era (and with a patina that feels rather 1970s-80s NYC boardroom / backroom

1900 Milton Bradley Kindergarten Blocks sets designed by Friedrich Froebel

In good condition

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Abstract Language, Margarete Gibbons' 1902 Completely Full Stenography Notebook handmade copper box I purchased it at anI 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