1857 Penmanship Practice Notebook with Unusual Sentences and Poignant Misspellings brown transferware its made of cast brass

its made of cast brass

most of which employed craftsmen arriving from Europe

which is worn around the edges but still holding together fine

would originally have used to cut pieces of Areca nut--commonly referred to as betel nut

1857 Penmanship Practice Notebook with Unusual Sentences and Poignant Misspellings brown transferware its made of cast brassTwo 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