William Douglas’s Copy of Noah Webster's 1824 American Speller printmaking and manipulating these exposed coils

and manipulating these exposed coils to produce a rough exterior surface

or as snow shovels for dolls

perhaps in southern Maine

made by Empire Brush Works of Port Chester

is painted Epinal

William Douglas’s Copy of Noah Webster's 1824 American Speller printmaking and manipulating these exposed coilsOf course I could not resist the beautiful calligraphic loops just inside this speller just shy of 200 years old, and especially what I take for a sharp featured little head and shoulders made up of tiny dots at left, which I imagine was a tiny portrait of a stern instructor! With wooden cover boards papered in blue (Webster's speller was the most popular of the day, known familiarly as the blue back speller) it is quite a lovely thing, with page