Jacob A. Paul's 1838 Ghent, NY Penmanship Practice Book the book of tea the Statue of Liberty

the Statue of Liberty

Match books are full

with minor cracking on the surface of the leather and wear/aging to the brass on the coin slot and to the brass Walsco lock

possibly Inuit but unsigned and I'm not entirely sure

wood and labor purchases

Jacob A. Paul's 1838 Ghent, NY Penmanship Practice Book the book of tea the Statue of LibertyI've had a number of British earlyish 19th century penmanship practice notebooks in the shop but this is the first American one, of a Jacob A. Paul I believe, of Ghent, NY, dated 1838. And it is quite different from the British in construction with a simple un dyed pulp paper cover, hand stitched binding, and then pages of various colors inside pink, green, yellow, some quite brilliant in tone. And no fraktur type headers here just page after page