Ode to the Alphabet, Earlier 19th Century Manuscript Tribute to the Useful, Pleasant, and Ever-Unfolding A,B,C's handmade pouches weighs just a little shy

weighs just a little shy of 2 pounds

Table measures 10 1/8" l x 7 3/8" d x 4 3/8" t

" perhaps the initials of the carver and the year 1911

he feels very much to me like a great and loyal companion now

one fit inside the other to create a tiered form

Ode to the Alphabet, Earlier 19th Century Manuscript Tribute to the Useful, Pleasant, and Ever-Unfolding A,B,C's handmade pouches weighs just a little shyFound digging deep in a pile at Brimfield certainly this one would attract little attention for the looks of it, but for me it was a delight to find, an ode to the alphabet itself! Earlier 1800s, black in on faded blue paper, like the alphabet somehow managing to endure. Among the curious, useful and pleasant thing of the world nothing seems to unfold so much respecting all ages as the Alphabet and might be rightly termed the fountain which sends