Abstract Language, Margarete Gibbons' 1902 Completely Full Stenography Notebook Ballantine beer cans Mid to late 19th century

Mid to late 19th century I am pretty sure

one presumes

Plenty of bubbles in the bottle glass

these little carved heads a case in point--but really how to ignore these faces

Abstract Language, Margarete Gibbons' 1902 Completely Full Stenography Notebook Ballantine beer cans Mid to late 19th centuryI find stenography shorthand fascinating, though I can't decipher a single symbol! Pretty much a lost form at this point, shorthand was is an abbreviated symbolic writing method that was developed as a means of increasing speed and brevity in writing, especially used in taking dictation. Of course technology has largely obliterated the need for it, and the capacity to decipher it which makes these pages of intensive mark making now like floating