Abstract Language, Margarete Gibbons' 1902 Completely Full Stenography Notebook handmade copper box I purchased it at an

I purchased it at an estate sale in Weston

The shape of the tower of greens and flowers keeps making me think of partridges in pear trees

based on a note from the seller

" the latter I believe the name of its maker

and especially that ear and nicely detailed feathers

Abstract Language, Margarete Gibbons' 1902 Completely Full Stenography Notebook handmade copper box I purchased it at anI find stenography shorthand fascinating, though I can't decipher a single symbol! Pretty much a lost form at this point, shorthand was is an abbreviated symbolic writing method that was developed as a means of increasing speed and brevity in writing, especially used in taking dictation. Of course technology has largely obliterated the need for it, and the capacity to decipher it which makes these pages of intensive mark making now like floating