Scarce Copy of Williams & Packard's Original Gems of Penmanship, 1867, with Inked Calligraphy Dedication and Fantastic Alphabets antique german watercolor muscled arms and huge hands

muscled arms and huge hands with individuated fingers--altogether a pure embodiment of endurance and fortitude

but not evident when looking at it

Finding a few old medicines in their original packaging like this one has me wanting to collect more

is holding very tight

looking rather like an eye or a little face

Scarce Copy of Williams & Packard's Original Gems of Penmanship, 1867, with Inked Calligraphy Dedication and Fantastic Alphabets antique german watercolor muscled arms and huge handsThis is a scarce one, and a significant one, having given rise to a whole lot of the fancy Spencerian calligraphy drawings one finds out there, and a whole lot of elaborate lettering too, with dozens of alphabets included in it. It is an 1867 copy of Williams & Packard's Original Gems of Penmanship, printed by Major & Knapp, 440 Broadway, NYC this copy presented to a Sarah Thresher as an award for "the best Specimen & Business Penmanship, May 31,