Viva La Plume! Rhoda Goodrich's Early 19th Century Red and Black Ink Penmanship Sampler vintage Acoma pottery even better when it’s attached

even better when it’s attached to a ball in cage

I'm a complete sucker for things like this

10 1/4" t x 4 3/4"w (measured on the square to either end of the tails) x 5 1/2 deep

Kelly (USA)

I might just fill it with paperclips and set it on the desk

Viva La Plume! Rhoda Goodrich's Early 19th Century Red and Black Ink Penmanship Sampler vintage Acoma pottery even better when it’s attachedPhotos don't do much justice to this one a fight with glare and so not especially well lit when I was shooting it but hopefully details give a decent sense. Found in Pennsylvania this summer, it is a very early 1800s penmanship exercise, executed across a two page laid paper folio, in a roughly period frame, as found. And I must say the Viva La Plume in red inked fraktur lettering at top pretty much sold me right away! Then two main passages,