Grace’s 1880 Speller with Flowers Drawings and Handwritten Messages striking looking rather like God's eyes

looking rather like God's eyes and-- together with more rope hanging off the sides like hair--making this feel all the more like a shamanistic object

Without a flaw whatsoever that I can see

and which is screwed to the thick wooden base

but I really love it now just as an object

Grace’s 1880 Speller with Flowers Drawings and Handwritten Messages striking looking rather like God's eyesI 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