1891 Signed Spencerian Pen and Ink Drawing of Two Birds colored blocks with a little darkening around

with a little darkening around the edges and a couple of dark spots on the front

The striped paint on the handles of the mallets and on the posts is well worn

with one light spot at the tip of one side of the exterior egg and a crack in one half of the second to smallest egg

the other one a pronounced waist and a rust and cream body

it is uncertain exactly the purpose they served

1891 Signed Spencerian Pen and Ink Drawing of Two Birds colored blocks with a little darkening aroundIt is hard to imagine a time when people learned how to make calligraphic drawings like this as a matter of course; just amazing. Originally used as an exercise to train students to perfect their handwriting, "Spencerian" steel pen drawings provided an diversion from the more repetitive practice of writing alphabets. Calligraphic drawing also gave the accomplished scribe a means of showing his or her ability and gave penmanship masters a way to