19th C. Spencerian Calligraphic Ink Drawn Fish pin up drawing with really just some toning

with really just some toning to the first sheets of a few of the notepads

and delivering an energetic action pose and a big smile each time

MA filled with daguerreotypes (sadly sold as one lot)

and with a nice warm patina including old stained and light scratches and a little paint here and there

Surely it was the head/tip of an old tool of some sort

19th C. Spencerian Calligraphic Ink Drawn Fish pin up drawing with really just some toningOne sees Spencerian calligraphic drawings of deer and birds, especially, around, but rarer to come across a fish, and while this one shows a couple of tears along the bottom edge (which I've mended from the reverse with transparent archival tape), it strikes me as a perfect thing for a fisher person as well, of course, as for a lover of antique calligraphy, as I am. I really love the face on it too, looking a bit smug and self satisfied, perhaps too