William Douglas’s Copy of Noah Webster's 1824 American Speller wooden tool box Sold in the old wooden

Sold in the old wooden frame I found her in

This is a perfect condition Herend Chinese Kneeling Man porcelain figure

and it would had a come in a box titled "Prairie Wagon

And then two more carved bands

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 Sold in the old woodenOf 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