Calender, 1856, Dramatically Inked Fraktur Bookplate bone egg what I especially love about

what I especially love about this copper skier is that his posture and position is exactly right for cross country skiing

) Here it is all about the juxtaposition of three women and three types of representation for me--the snapshot portrait of woman at left

This one makes me want to spend all my time searching for antique French ribbon samplers--I do believe it is about the most perfectly beautiful thing I've seen or can imagine

just one very light surface scratch

with the interior intended for (longer

Calender, 1856, Dramatically Inked Fraktur Bookplate bone egg what I especially love aboutI'm very tempted to get this one in a simple frame and keep it for myself forever possessing a drama and gravitas that far exceeds it scale, and feeling as if it holds all of the weight of time and its passage in those very heavily black inked letters, which have burned through the paper here and there. The bookplate of a Christina Kern, 1856, found in Pennsylvania.(Love that lonely comma after the 1856, too.) And note the spelling of Calender with an