Pawson, Dunton & Scribner's 1875 Penmanship Practice Notebook, Completed by CJ Fisk east boston I might frame them up

I might frame them up more or less as arranged in photos and just find them super satisfying to look at--though they could definitely get dressed up and played with first

and carries through from raised ears

I've become really enamored of the way the gold paint on old tramp art pieces like this softens and mellows with age--in this case I think at least a hundred years time has resulted in mellow gold perfection

Members of the family became prominent in politics

I do know that these small watercolors on heavyweight handmade paper are Tibetan Tsakli

Pawson, Dunton & Scribner's 1875 Penmanship Practice Notebook, Completed by CJ Fisk east boston I might frame them upSo many different penmanship practice notebooks to enjoy for different reasons. This one was all about mastering individual letters and the proper slant of them, hence a whole page of "oo"s (finally becoming a whole page of "noon"s) and "aa"s,"cc"s "vv"s, etc., reading like fields of abstract mark making, which I find quite beautiful. And "ruin" repeated a hundred or so times feels especially poignant. 24 p + cover : 5 3 4" x 7". Good condition, with