Frederic Fisher's 1863 Penmanship Practice Notebook with Good Sentences! woman ice skating otherwise assorted paint loss here

otherwise assorted paint loss here and there

The ink color is a sort of sepia-gray

with minor wax drips in a couple of spots

fairly thick walled and heavy for its size

Frederic Fisher's 1863 Penmanship Practice Notebook with Good Sentences! woman ice skating otherwise assorted paint loss hereAnother really nice penmanship practice notebook, this one dated 1863 and done by Frederic Fisher, the brother I assume of Henry Fisher, whose notebook I just listed. I really like the somewhat looser handwriting in this one, done according to the Becker rather than Spencerian method, and which includes word repetition, including the names of lots of cities and countries, as well as sentences: Quarrelsome boys are troublesome; Command of hand gives