Pair of Young Brick Layers Flanking Their Work, Terrific Antique Occupational (Apprentice?) Mounted Photo stencil painted pin cushion I'm drawn to different penmanship

I'm drawn to different penmanship notebooks for different reasons--often for beautiful handwriting

finding it a wonderfully mysterious

Purchased from a dealer with consistently lovely old textiles in New Hampshire

resting atop them

a couple of old fold lines at the bottom left corner

Pair of Young Brick Layers Flanking Their Work, Terrific Antique Occupational (Apprentice?) Mounted Photo stencil painted pin cushion I'm drawn to different penmanshipNothing makes me happier than exemplifications of pride in good, hard work, and I might guess this fireplace was the most ambitious bricklaying effort completed by these two young men to date, who look quite fresh in their coveralls, trowel in the hand of one (the other I imagine just outside the frame.) Perhaps young apprentices, or bricklaying students, I am not sure; there is a bit of handwriting on the reverse but it is hard to decipher. Very