1870s Penmanship Notebook with Great Cover, Full hand thrown bowl Hollowed out inside

Hollowed out inside

with a gorgeous turned long wooden handle and blonde

a talented fraktur artist)—would become quite a notable figure not just in Lehigh Valley

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1870s Penmanship Notebook with Great Cover, Full hand thrown bowl Hollowed out insideI just don't have it in me to pass up a 19th century penmanship practice notebook when I find one each one its own story, and each product of a specific hand at a specific moment in time. And just lovely things. The phrases repeated over and over speak that moment and what was being drilled into students morally in addition to covering the bases calligraphically this one, dating to the 1870s, includes phrases such as "A friend's infirmities should be