Wilma Powlesland's Memo Pad With Marvelous Drawings by Genleve Baldyga, East Syracuse, NY glass pins Ohio Peck family

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It was quite dusty when I found it

Oil on hand-cut academy board

and it could certainly be put to use once again

this exquisitely crafted but brutal object was a sailor's weapon

Wilma Powlesland's Memo Pad With Marvelous Drawings by Genleve Baldyga, East Syracuse, NY glass pins Ohio Peck familyI paid a fair bit for this one, but I couldn't walk away and anything that delivers pure and total delight these days seems worth its weight in gold. Notes on the inside of the cover tell us it was a young Wilma Powlesland's memo pad, but the drawings were the work of Genleve Baldyga (and there's a self portrait included.) Photos give a good sense, most pages documented. And then a series of spelling lists at the end, with some good and evocative word