SOLD Harriet Humphries' Lovely Mid 19th C. Penmanship Notebook with Great Words and Phrases antique toy boxers and with a great sense

and with a great sense of future possibility about it

The fishing pole has a little give up and down but not a lot

such that it reads Godzilla-like in scale

a small area of very light reddish stain around the island above the bathing beauty

Carved of lead I believe

SOLD Harriet Humphries' Lovely Mid 19th C. Penmanship Notebook with Great Words and Phrases antique toy boxers and with a great senseIt's been a bit since I find a nice penmanship practice notebook I think in part because I've gotten pickier about the ones that I like! This one, kept by a Harriet Humphries, is undated, but I've looked at enough of these to believe it is mid 1800s, with plain blue paper cover and plain laid paper pages bound with string. Typical spreads feature a shorter repeated phrase in larger lettering on one side, and a longer repeated sentence on the other. I