Two Figures, Marvelous c. 1880s Schoolgirl Fraktur Style Watercolor, Framed cigar smoking man Two antique penmanship notebooks today

Two antique penmanship notebooks today

looking absolutely as if having a vision

which I'd guess may be the year when he was made

if you give it a push not will roll along with the rowers moving forward and backward as it does

and probably once a leather strap attached to the base

Two Figures, Marvelous c. 1880s Schoolgirl Fraktur Style Watercolor, Framed cigar smoking man Two antique penmanship notebooks todayAmong my very favorite Pennsylvania finds, this one came out a late 1870s early 80s sketchbook that was very much falling apart, so I extricated it. And it's about as pure an embodiment of the sort of drawing watercolor I love as anything could be. I might guess it was inspired by a Fraktur wedding certificate, but don't know for sure certainly I would call it a fraktur style schoolgirl (or schoolboy) watercolor drawing, of the Pennsylvania folk