1857 Penmanship Practice Notebook with Unusual Sentences and Poignant Misspellings brown transferware and makes it go

and makes it go

And also the fact that the waiter looks to me very much like Vladimir Putin

which is worn around the edges but still holding together fine

and all in very good condition

and fun to play around with

1857 Penmanship Practice Notebook with Unusual Sentences and Poignant Misspellings brown transferware and makes it goTwo 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