Viva La Plume! Rhoda Goodrich's Early 19th Century Red and Black Ink Penmanship Sampler vintage Acoma pottery I'm a complete sucker for

I'm a complete sucker for things like this

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with a few losses the surface of the reverse side facing on the plywood--no real matter

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Viva La Plume! Rhoda Goodrich's Early 19th Century Red and Black Ink Penmanship Sampler vintage Acoma pottery I'm a complete sucker forPhotos don't do much justice to this one a fight with glare and so not especially well lit when I was shooting it but hopefully details give a decent sense. Found in Pennsylvania this summer, it is a very early 1800s penmanship exercise, executed across a two page laid paper folio, in a roughly period frame, as found. And I must say the Viva La Plume in red inked fraktur lettering at top pretty much sold me right away! Then two main passages,