Be Happy (Respectfully), Spencerian Red and Black Ink Calligraphy Autograph Album Page, 1880s wooden snake cloth arms

cloth arms

pinned or nailed to wood

Purchased from a treasure-filled antique shop in Vermont

are pretty pliable

Be Happy (Respectfully), Spencerian Red and Black Ink Calligraphy Autograph Album Page, 1880s wooden snake cloth armsThis and a second page today (listed separately) from the same autograph album, of an Ernest Hills, spanning 1884 88. I typically keep things in tact but there was not much else in there so I extracted the pages with Spencerian calligraphy. And what a lovely pair of red inked hearts. I've seen a lot of Spencerian birds, and flourishes of all sorts on autograph pages like this, but not very often dangling hearts like this. And I love the combination of