Scarce Coe's New Drawing Cards No. 1, 1858, Partial Set of Nine in Lovely Original Sleeve indian bull Rolls along smoothly

Rolls along smoothly

I put them in this old slide lid box--a larger box than they need

And what appears to be the draft of a letter to a Mrs

which for me is all about the torque of the head

I can't find another one anywhere out there exactly like this one

Scarce Coe's New Drawing Cards No. 1, 1858, Partial Set of Nine in Lovely Original Sleeve indian bull Rolls along smoothlyI 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