SOLD Harriet Humphries' Lovely Mid 19th C. Penmanship Notebook with Great Words and Phrases antique toy boxers measuring 24 inches long

measuring 24 inches long

and with a great sense of future possibility about it

The fishing pole has a little give up and down but not a lot

a mountain region on the border between Germany and the Czech Republic famous for folk art structures

Carved of lead I believe

SOLD Harriet Humphries' Lovely Mid 19th C. Penmanship Notebook with Great Words and Phrases antique toy boxers measuring 24 inches longIt's been a bit since I find a nice penmanship practice notebook I think in part because I've gotten pickier about the ones that I like! This one, kept by a Harriet Humphries, is undated, but I've looked at enough of these to believe it is mid 1800s, with plain blue paper cover and plain laid paper pages bound with string. Typical spreads feature a shorter repeated phrase in larger lettering on one side, and a longer repeated sentence on the other. I