Henry Fisher's 1869 Penmanship Practice with Great Word Combinations! old wooden handled brush I clearly love carved chains

I clearly love carved chains and balls in cages

5 5/8" across at base

and this is a very sweet one--not a bit fussy

A little glare in a few photos

so this old drawing won me immediately with its painstakingly drawn tiny bricks

Henry Fisher's 1869 Penmanship Practice with Great Word Combinations! old wooden handled brush I clearly love carved chainsI've rarely met a penmanship practice notebook I didn't like, but think this is an especially nice one, filled by a Henry Fisher in 1869, under to watch of his tutor W. J. Sleiffer and I believe from Pennsylvania. What I especially love about this one is the repetition of consistently good, juicy words, and especially the pairs of words side by side, usually two to a page: Valentine Vermilion; Yearning Yawning ; Machine Manikin; Teaching Treachery,