Executed by T.J. Pearce in Three Minutes: 19th Century Spencerian Ink Drawn Bird cat with great face perhaps for his their kid

perhaps for his their kid to use to decorate their creations

And turns out the Gichner Ironworks

Great for kids

and black mohair hair

Executed by T.J. Pearce in Three Minutes: 19th Century Spencerian Ink Drawn Bird cat with great face perhaps for his their kidA very lovely early Spencerian (calligraphic) ink drawing of a bird (with a list of expenses on the back, making me like it all the more.) But what is especially good about this one is that not only was it is signed by its maker "executed by" a T. J. Pearce, I believe it reads but he (I presume) also noted the time it took to draw: "in three minutes." Which suggests, as if not already apparent, that he was quite a practiced Spencerian calligrapher. I