Barber's Writing Academy, Mid 1800s Fraktur Penmanship Example in Great Period Frame set of hand-painted cards and white on the top

and white on the top and sides

1950s white and gold painted wooden frame

and which I'll be more than happy to keep for myself--that I know were salvaged from a scrapbook/sketchbook that lived from many years in the possession of a collector (of the hoarder disposition)

which itself is scraped and worn away to perfection

I'd guess this large hand-thrown vase dates to the 1960s or early 70s

Barber's Writing Academy, Mid 1800s Fraktur Penmanship Example in Great Period Frame set of hand-painted cards and white on the topMy photos here don't do much justice to this, but I think it's really a nice thing, and very much a whole package. And while it took me a little while to figure out, I think it is quite possible that this was actually the lid of a writing box, with what appear to be parts of two hinges still attached to the corner sides of the frame at top, and a nail on the bottom edge at center, which would have met a clasp. At least I think so. And if so, one might