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

I'd like to think these were carved not in memorial but rather in celebration of the progression of time

Dings here and there and some paint loss

but to me she seems just right--a sort of Sphynx

hexagonal for an extra good grip

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