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Yesterday I received a fantastic package that contained a large assortment of
French Cards from the
1860's! Each card shows a stunning sample of either
Spencerian Script, Typography or Monograms. Such a treasure, I've never seen anything like this in my 20 years of dealing with Antiques, so I think it may be quite
rare! I'm told that these came from an Estate, in which the owner had owned an
Antique Store in Philadelphia that closed down in the
1950's! Anyway, shown above is an amazing
Spencerian, or Pen Flourishing, Frame! I have no idea what the writing says, perhaps some of our French friends will help us out with the translation. The card is so beautiful, but I also loved the frame on it's own, I think it would be wonderful for
Wedding Stationery!! I can't wait to share more of these, with you guys!
Many thanks for sharing these wonderful frames Karen.
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Jo x
These are beautiful Karen! thanks!
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ReplyDeleteIt's from the 1817 translation by Pierre Le Tourneur of Edward Young's Night Thoughts (written in 1742). The quote is about not wasting time, it is more precious than gold, etc. The frame seems typical of Victorian copy exercises in that it keeps the student's mind on an uplifting moral teaching while practicing a physical skill.
ReplyDelete"The Complaint, or Night Thoughts on Life, Death and Immortality" was the full title of Young's poem. From Wikipedia: "Its success was enormous. It was translated into French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Swedish and Magyar. In France it became a classic of the romantic school." See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Young
So, a famous passage in its day, and well beyond!
Thank you for sharing! You are wonderful! I appreciate you and your glorious site!
ReplyDeleteOnce again, you seriously ROCK! Gorgeous, beautiful, amazing...etc. Thank you, thank you, thank you for sharing! I only discovered your blog a month ago, I have been looking at trash in a completely different way since. I am very grateful.
ReplyDeleteRoughly it says
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Let’s be sparing with our time, let the hours go from our hands only with caution, with fruit, with as much regret as when we let go of (can’t figure out what it says, it doesn’t look like a word but an abbreviation of a word), we shouldn’t let a day pass without augmenting the treasure of our knowledge and virtues.
And this is indeed gorgeous and thank you so much for this and what you post every day !
Sandrine
the word I couldn't read is or ("gold") as in "when we let go of our gold"...The "O" is so ornate I did not recognize it for what it was.
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Thank you for your lovely comments everyone! Greatblue and Sandrine, thank you so much for your input!!!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful!!! Can't wait to see what else you received. One tiny request: couldn't help noticing you consistently spell stationery with an a. Should be with an e. Hope you don't mind my saying that. I look forward to you emails every day.
ReplyDeleteWhat a gorgeous frame and script! Thanks for the history of the poem, greatblue, and for the translation, kominsa!
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Beautiful frame! Thank you! :)
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely beautiful. Thank you!
ReplyDeletemerci Karen. C'est magnifique. Ma grand-mère avait la même écriture!
ReplyDeletece n'est pas "lâcher" mais "céder" et "céder son or" est soit donner son argent pour quelque raison que ce soit ;)
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