Viva La Plume! Rhoda Goodrich's Early 19th Century Red and Black Ink Penmanship Sampler vintage Acoma pottery 14 pp total

14 pp total

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

I'm a complete sucker for things like this

) resting on the table between them

with a few losses the surface of the reverse side facing on the plywood--no real matter

Viva La Plume! Rhoda Goodrich's Early 19th Century Red and Black Ink Penmanship Sampler vintage Acoma pottery 14 pp totalPhotos 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,