William Douglas’s Copy of Noah Webster's 1824 American Speller printmaking I love the rounded ends

I love the rounded ends and especially the star at the center on the top of this tall tramp art frame

I had never seen one of these planters before

bright and clear

I grabbed these for the beautifully papered box

perhaps in southern Maine

William Douglas’s Copy of Noah Webster's 1824 American Speller printmaking I love the rounded endsOf 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