Charming Demonstrations and Lamentations: Earlyish Century Penmanship Practice Notebook yard duck I think this drawing is

I think this drawing is FANTASTIC

a "Prayer Leaflet" from the Blessed Martin Guild

the first thing I thought when I saw them was of old optometrist signs in the form of spectacles

I'm not habitually drawn to Adirondack folk art twig furniture

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Charming Demonstrations and Lamentations: Earlyish Century Penmanship Practice Notebook yard duck I think this drawing isAnother 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