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#TilesOnTuesday + #TwoForTuesday:

195 & 318 “Blue Jay”

another pair from the ongoing search for all the animals from the 420 original 1906 Moravian tile mosaics by Henry Mercer on the Pennsylvania Capitol floor.

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#TilesOnTuesday + #TwoForTuesday:

165 & 349 “Porcupine”

Usually these tile pairs are duplicate compositions, but not these! 👀

From the ongoing search for all the animals from the 420 original 1906 Moravian tile mosaics by Henry Mercer on the Pennsylvania Capitol floor.

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For #SquirrelAppreciationDay:

12, 28, 35, 140 “Grey Squirrel”

From the ongoing search for all the animals from the 420 original 1906 Moravian tile mosaics by Henry Chapman Mercer on the Pennsylvania Capitol floor.

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For #AppreciateADragonDay on #TilesOnTuesday + #TwoForTuesday:

100 + 362 “DRAGONFLY”

From the ongoing search for all the animals from Henry Mercer’s 420 original 1906 Moravian tile mosaics on the Pennsylvania Capitol floor.

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Sunday Sunfish!

“The Sunfish. 317. Where the meadow brook deepens under hazel bushes, or plunges into the the milldam's pool, or where sunbeams piercing the warped boards of the old broad bridge, illumine the scented water, barefooted children, with worm boxes poles strings pin hooks and puppy, peeping downward, behold the sunfish, akin to humanity in its eyes, fanning itself with winglike fins, a translucent golden shadow in an enchanted water world.” (Guide Book to the Tiles Pavement in the Capitol of Pennsylvania by Henry C Mercer, 1908, p. 85)

From the ongoing search for all the animals from Mercer’s 420 original 1906 Moravian tile #mosaics on the Pennsylvania Capitol floor.

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For #TilesOnTueaday + #TwoForTuesday:

105 + 156 “#Oyster”

Many of the designs appear in multiples and those in higher foot traffic areas have noticeably more wear, as seen in this pair.

From the ongoing search for all the animals from the 420 original 1906 Moravian tile mosaics by Henry Chapman Mercer on the Pennsylvania Capitol floor.

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For #MosaicMonday + #OwlishMonday:

51. Screech Owl + 141. Barn Owl

From the ongoing search for all the animals from the 420 original 1906 Moravian tile mosaics by Henry Chapman Mercer on the #Pennsylvania Capitol floor.