Prudence Wells's (Shelburne, MA) Lovely Early 19th Century Penmanship Notebook hanging relief carving Frame is especially lovely

Frame is especially lovely

I've long been admiring sets of stone blocks like this for years

The fourth appears perhaps to have been a first stab at what became the third (letter C)--with no labels

Great angled sides which make me think it was once a motel sign c

Prudence Wells's (Shelburne, MA) Lovely Early 19th Century Penmanship Notebook hanging relief carving Frame is especially lovelyI made a trip to my favorite antiquarian book seller in Maine this week and scooped up a few old paper things, this early penmanship notebook, the work of a Prudence Wells of Shelburne, Massachusetts among them. (And I believe I've placed her, born in 1799, in Shelburne, Franklin, MA, married to a Thomas Nims in 1825, and living until to the age of 90 in Greenfield, MA.) Based on that, and its content, I believe this notebook dates to the late 1810s