1844 Elementary Spelling Book by Noah Webster with Lots of Good Words! wooden folk art cat and this is the last

and this is the last of the drawings I pulled from a wonderful notebook by Elmer S

and it is definitely the sort of piece I would want to arrange the rest of a room around

I've found a few other examples of powder flasks of this scale out there

(The threaded silver ring holding the photo looks to me as it was made to flip up

it's a nice one to hang on the wall

1844 Elementary Spelling Book by Noah Webster with Lots of Good Words! wooden folk art cat and this is the lastClearly I've got words and language on my brain this week plus I just made a visit to my favorite antiquarian book seller in Maine so here's this lovely, early speller published by Sanborn & Carter, Portland, Maine in 1844. Lovely hand colored title page, then page after page of good (and pretty) words getting progressively longer and more sophisticated as one goes along. Another one to inspire images as new lines of thinking as one sees sequences