Abstract Language, Margarete Gibbons' 1902 Completely Full Stenography Notebook handmade copper box And then the house and

And then the house and shed

0 era (and with a patina that feels rather 1970s-80s NYC boardroom / backroom

and especially that ear and nicely detailed feathers

1 of an edition of 6--but I think it is really a beautiful piece

The shape of the tower of greens and flowers keeps making me think of partridges in pear trees

Abstract Language, Margarete Gibbons' 1902 Completely Full Stenography Notebook handmade copper box And then the house andI find stenography shorthand fascinating, though I can't decipher a single symbol! Pretty much a lost form at this point, shorthand was is an abbreviated symbolic writing method that was developed as a means of increasing speed and brevity in writing, especially used in taking dictation. Of course technology has largely obliterated the need for it, and the capacity to decipher it which makes these pages of intensive mark making now like floating