Scarce Coe's New Drawing Cards No. 1, 1858, Partial Set of Nine in Lovely Original Sleeve antique crewel work including Greuby and Teco

including Greuby and Teco

where I believe it has likely lived for quite a long time

leave them screwed

is a rich and complex and interesting subject

Scarce Coe's New Drawing Cards No. 1, 1858, Partial Set of Nine in Lovely Original Sleeve antique crewel work including Greuby and TecoI was sold on these just by the lovely paper sleeve encasing them, with a heart hand inked by the Ruth who once owned them to boot. They are a set of drawing cards, produced for use in schools, specifically "Coes New Drawing Lessons No 1." printed by D. Appleton & Co., New York, 1858, and described here as "A Method by which all the Members of a Large Class are taught to Draw at Once with Neatness, Uniformity, and Accuracy." (And indeed, it you've