Resonant Advertising Cover, Fearless Threshing Machines, Cobleskill NY 1880 Postmark ruby-rub can And then of course is

And then of course is all the practice and precision associated with Spencerian penmanship and calligraphic drawings--making me this of this as a flock of Spencerian birds and gestural flourishes yet to loop across thousands of pages

with a spool used for the body and what looks like wooden beads for the head and tail

which verges into the realm of total abstraction

below the under box

Resonant Advertising Cover, Fearless Threshing Machines, Cobleskill NY 1880 Postmark ruby-rub can And then of course isJust the name "Fearless Threshing Machine" in bold black lettering sold me on this envelope, feeling especially resonant at the moment, and the graphic, with apparently fearless man sandwiched between horses and machine, is pretty great too plus the just right name of the manufacturer: Minard Harder. With beautiful black ink calligraphy addressing the cover to a M. A Sprice(r?) of Unadilla Forks, NY; postmarked 1880 from Cobbleskill, NY, with a 3 cent