Many Men of Many Minds...Daniel Zigler's Charming, Unusual 1847 Penmanship Notebook eantique delft tile I think the best I’ve

I think the best I’ve ever seen

Feels like a personality-full pet bird (I'd like to think this was carved after a beloved one) but without the cage to clean

4" t x 1 1/4" x 1 1/4"

6 1/16” x 6 3/4”

a little paint loss here and there

Many Men of Many Minds...Daniel Zigler's Charming, Unusual 1847 Penmanship Notebook eantique delft tile I think the best I’veYou know by now that early penmanship notebooks are one of my very favorite things, and having looked at many many at this point it takes special and unusual ones to excite me, which is the case with this one. The work of a Daniel Zigler, dated 1847, it features phrases I have not seen in one of these before, repeated many many times (not just one page's worth, but multiple pages of the same phrase.) And fun ones! "Many men of many minds, many birds