Charming Demonstrations and Lamentations: Earlyish Century Penmanship Practice Notebook flax hetchel late 19th/very early 20th century

late 19th/very early 20th century or so I would guess

engaged sort of life

As per my postal scale

and anything cost 25 cents

Dings here and there and some paint loss

Charming Demonstrations and Lamentations: Earlyish Century Penmanship Practice Notebook flax hetchel late 19th/very early 20th centuryAnother old penmanship notebook, because I can't pass them by, and find them all interesting in different ways. This early one, with thick handmade paper cover, is all about the repetition of single words over and over again the outcome of which I find quite satisfying, formally and conceptually, especially when the word is, say "runninghand"! (Runninghand is a style of penmanship emerging in the late 1700s. in which letters are slanted and the words