Grace’s 1880 Speller with Flowers Drawings and Handwritten Messages striking with some black ink spattering

with some black ink spattering around the letters that seems likely original to it

This is the first owl like this I've seen

From what I've found

and which is screwed to the thick wooden base

Without a flaw whatsoever that I can see

Grace’s 1880 Speller with Flowers Drawings and Handwritten Messages striking with some black ink spatteringI have a feeling Grace was not entirely devoted to her spelling, as she seems to have used this book to collect messages from her friends, too! (i. e. "When you grow old and cannot see Put on your specs and think of me.") There are a handful, clearly written by different people, on the end pages, and, my favorite, these little flower drawings at the front. As you likely know by now Im a sucker for a sweet and much personalized old school book, and