William Douglas’s Copy of Noah Webster's 1824 American Speller wooden tool box much beloved cat of the

much beloved cat of the un-named author

with a true flat back making for easy hanging from a nail on the wall

This is a perfect condition Herend Chinese Kneeling Man porcelain figure

Sold in the old wooden frame I found her in

I I believe was likely done by a schoolgirl (who was surely fantasizing about Paris and fine dresses and she painted it

William Douglas’s Copy of Noah Webster's 1824 American Speller wooden tool box much beloved cat of theOf course I could not resist the beautiful calligraphic loops just inside this speller just shy of 200 years old, and especially what I take for a sharp featured little head and shoulders made up of tiny dots at left, which I imagine was a tiny portrait of a stern instructor! With wooden cover boards papered in blue (Webster's speller was the most popular of the day, known familiarly as the blue back speller) it is quite a lovely thing, with page