Confine Your Passions, Riches A Blessing for Correcting the Iniquities of Fortune, Sally Sprague's Timely 1808 Penmanship Exercise iron mends Weighs 8 3/4" pounds

Weighs 8 3/4" pounds

all those abstract lines form words

This pumpkin-shaped (or sometimes described as melon-shaped) rich green and bright orange lacquer box with incised vine

with the added benefit that the former make excellent vehicles for the rendering of pattern

turned this Cocomalt can into a magnifying glass  Works great

Confine Your Passions, Riches A Blessing for Correcting the Iniquities of Fortune, Sally Sprague's Timely 1808 Penmanship Exercise iron mends Weighs 8 3/4" poundsThis is an early pen and ink penmanship exercise signed Sally Spague and dated 1808. In addition to the fabulous eagle at top, and the header "Confine Your Passions" employing the "long s", what really sold me was the section about riches. "Riches in the hand of a beneficent man are a blessing to the public [.] such a one is a steward to providence and the whole means of correcting the inequalities of fortune [,] of relieving the miserable and