Viva La Plume! Rhoda Goodrich's Early 19th Century Red and Black Ink Penmanship Sampler vintage Acoma pottery 10 1/4" t x 4

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)

) resting on the table between them

Tales of Adventure

Viva La Plume! Rhoda Goodrich's Early 19th Century Red and Black Ink Penmanship Sampler vintage Acoma pottery 10 1/4" t x 4Photos 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,