Henry Fisher's 1869 Penmanship Practice with Great Word Combinations! old wooden handled brush with beautiful jointed corners

with beautiful jointed corners

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and this is a very sweet one--not a bit fussy

so this old drawing won me immediately with its painstakingly drawn tiny bricks

with lovely handwritten text interspersed throughout with delicate little drawings diagramming the reproductive parts of various plants

Henry Fisher's 1869 Penmanship Practice with Great Word Combinations! old wooden handled brush with beautiful jointed cornersI've rarely met a penmanship practice notebook I didn't like, but think this is an especially nice one, filled by a Henry Fisher in 1869, under to watch of his tutor W. J. Sleiffer and I believe from Pennsylvania. What I especially love about this one is the repetition of consistently good, juicy words, and especially the pairs of words side by side, usually two to a page: Valentine Vermilion; Yearning Yawning ; Machine Manikin; Teaching Treachery,