19th Century Rewards of Merit - Group One (Paper, c. 1830s-60s) painted plaster sculpture Slightly hunched and head cocked

Slightly hunched and head cocked

(established in 1898 and still operating) on the back

and the way the lip is shaped to evince the bird's whole body

reading super crisp and clean

the Rembrandt group and the Brug

19th Century Rewards of Merit - Group One (Paper, c. 1830s-60s) painted plaster sculpture Slightly hunched and head cockedThe existence of rewards of merit makes me glad, giving from teachers to students to affirm their good efforts, as does the fact that people saved them. Last weekend I found a large collection of them in a box in Midcoast Maine quite a nice variety of them, which I've divided into three groups, all listed today. The ones in this group are all printed on paper (rather than card), are relatively early examples )c. 1830s 60s or so), and many of them are