Frederic Fisher's 1863 Penmanship Practice Notebook with Good Sentences! woman ice skating fairly thick walled and heavy

fairly thick walled and heavy for its size

The box for these shows a little wear but the wooden "dominoes" seem barely have to been used--bright and crisp and both very 1969 and very 2021

starting with what I find to be the striking beauty and evocativeness of the image

base has a diameter of 3 1/4" d

There's no mark on it

Frederic Fisher's 1863 Penmanship Practice Notebook with Good Sentences! woman ice skating fairly thick walled and heavyAnother really nice penmanship practice notebook, this one dated 1863 and done by Frederic Fisher, the brother I assume of Henry Fisher, whose notebook I just listed. I really like the somewhat looser handwriting in this one, done according to the Becker rather than Spencerian method, and which includes word repetition, including the names of lots of cities and countries, as well as sentences: Quarrelsome boys are troublesome; Command of hand gives