Samuel Gifford 1828 British Math School Notebook (1) with Fraktur Writing cat votive My guess is that this

My guess is that this is a carved whimsy chain abandoned mid-way through

perhaps most of all the way the O and the W stretch the entire height of it

I think they're just stunning and perfect for stoking the creativity of the entire family

And then how their boat is just sailing atop those great graphic waves—echoed by swirling sky

black and blond

Samuel Gifford 1828 British Math School Notebook (1) with Fraktur Writing cat votive My guess is that thisI have long been eyeing antique school notebooks, both relating to the study of math and writing calligraphy, and finally found a lovely set of five of them from a seller in England, which I am listing individually. This is one of two hard backed math notebooks with marbleized paper covers and printed endpapers with "A Collection of Arithmetical Tables for the Use of Schools" of a Samuel Gifford studying at Mr. Heale's Academy in Sherborne, dating to