Mind Your Book Nancy with Alphabet on Reverse (and Poultry Poundage) heart and curl wrought iron sets the imagination wandering

sets the imagination wandering

Cloth Measure

if it is indeed an antique coin bank as I think it is

Of course I love those lushly painted pears the most

Mind Your Book Nancy with Alphabet on Reverse (and Poultry Poundage) heart and curl wrought iron sets the imagination wanderingI'm not entirely sure why I find this very old scrap so appealing and satisfying, with "Mind your Book Nancy" repeated three times on one side and a partial alphabet three times on reverse, but it certainly has something to do with the hard trying effort invested in making each of those letters and phrases, including the fact that one "mind" looks like "mond" and also alludes to "mend," and that the second "book" looks a lot like "boob"! (On the