Lot of 4 Mid 19th Century Penmanship Practice Notebooks carved stamp Just a wonderful paint job

Just a wonderful paint job on this old wooden cutout goose

which almost makes me think she was made as a mannequin for a ballet instructor

but I find her an incredibly tender thing

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Lot of 4 Mid 19th Century Penmanship Practice Notebooks carved stamp Just a wonderful paint jobThough it's a bit difficult to discern some of the handwriting (!), these four notebooks appear to have been the property of a couple of different members of the Heath family of Boston I can clearly read John Heath on one, and I believe Adelbert on a couple of others, and the years 1849 and 1850 appear. I love the paperback covers on these, especially the "lessons in drawings" animals and geometric shapes. Inside, they vary: >>one (the one with