Dear Friend Mollie, Lovely 1864 Handwritten Letter by Young Teacher with Two Pages of Cross-writing homemade stereoscopic slides beautiful dry wood patina

beautiful dry wood patina

and huge eyes

I know this blackened redware pipe bowl was found in Virginia and dates to the late 19th/very early 20th century

I’ve seen a lot of folk art doorstops

Perhaps meant to represent--or at least allude to--Felix the Cat

Dear Friend Mollie, Lovely 1864 Handwritten Letter by Young Teacher with Two Pages of Cross-writing homemade stereoscopic slides beautiful dry wood patinaI'm always looking for examples of cross writing, but rarely come across them, so was very pleased to find this one at Brimfield, purchased from a favorite Pennsylvania based dealer. It is dated July, 1864 and addressed to "Dear friend Mollie," though I can't quite discern the signature of its author, who is a young teacher, in her first year of teaching it seems. ("Some think teachers have an easy time of it but my experience so far leads me to have