William Douglas’s Copy of Noah Webster's 1824 American Speller wooden tool box with perhaps a tiny chip

with perhaps a tiny chip at the top corner of the blade

I I believe was likely done by a schoolgirl (who was surely fantasizing about Paris and fine dresses and she painted it

much beloved cat of the un-named author

This is a perfect condition Herend Chinese Kneeling Man porcelain figure

I think most likely it was some sort of stopper or handle

William Douglas’s Copy of Noah Webster's 1824 American Speller wooden tool box with perhaps a tiny chipOf 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