Rare Spencerian Calling Card Salesman Samples in Presumed Original Frame grain counter Kazanjian to photograph

Kazanjian to photograph

or a bird of paradise would be pretty fabulous in it too

that this was a weight for some sort of industrial scale

made even better by years of weather

with just a bit of wear/loss of white paint--plus some white paint spatters on his wooden legs

Rare Spencerian Calling Card Salesman Samples in Presumed Original Frame grain counter Kazanjian to photographYou know I love Spencerian calligraphy all those birds and flourishes and beautiful lettering but what makes this especially special, and rarer, is that it appears to have been a salesman sample calligrapher's display piece, showing examples of the sorts of calling cards that could be ordered by clients. The banners of the upper left card together read "Cards Written To Order," and the seven others show an array of options for the sorts of cards that