Confine Your Passions, Riches A Blessing for Correcting the Iniquities of Fortune, Sally Sprague's Timely 1808 Penmanship Exercise iron mends with one ladder above and

with one ladder above and one leading below deck

with lines separating double digits

and there are a few small pieces of mother of pearl still inlaid as well—all adhered to a solid wood panel

all those abstract lines form words

turned this Cocomalt can into a magnifying glass  Works great

Confine Your Passions, Riches A Blessing for Correcting the Iniquities of Fortune, Sally Sprague's Timely 1808 Penmanship Exercise iron mends with one ladder above andThis is an early pen and ink penmanship exercise signed Sally Spague and dated 1808. In addition to the fabulous eagle at top, and the header "Confine Your Passions" employing the "long s", what really sold me was the section about riches. "Riches in the hand of a beneficent man are a blessing to the public [.] such a one is a steward to providence and the whole means of correcting the inequalities of fortune [,] of relieving the miserable and