Spencerian Pens: Beautiful Condition Antique Stationer's Pen Nib Case, Chock Full plymouth england pretty minor and as documented

pretty minor and as documented

but love that the maker of this one did her own thing

and together make quite a happy family I think

It appears that the snake was carved of wood then very painstaking decorated with layers of brown and black cut paper

surely this head gave rise to some marvelous hats

Spencerian Pens: Beautiful Condition Antique Stationer's Pen Nib Case, Chock Full plymouth england pretty minor and as documentedAnother find this week on a loop through central and mid coast Maine that brought pure joy and delight and quite a lucky find, too, I think a stationer's display box, completely filled with a spectrum of variously sized and shaped pen nibs! For me, I look at this in part as a fantastic found object: a near perfect embodiment of the power and possibilities of the pen, and endless potential of the written word, and language in general (including