1857 Penmanship Practice Notebook with Unusual Sentences and Poignant Misspellings blue with its hand-sewn pink cloth

with its hand-sewn pink cloth wrapped ferrule

which can be rotated in relation to the pole

I'm drawn to Inuit pieces that hold multiple gestures or states of being in balance

Toning and loss to the backing card as evident

which was meant to have a perfect 52 degree slant

1857 Penmanship Practice Notebook with Unusual Sentences and Poignant Misspellings blue with its hand-sewn pink clothTwo antique penmanship notebooks today, because my love and quest for these never ends, each one interesting in its own way. I do believe this one, completed by a Thomas Fuller in 1857, is the first I've found with a series of misspellings though most poignantly in the repetition of "To learn to write is important, espesially [sic] well." It also includes some unusual sentences as far as my experience with these, such as "The globe on which we live is