Henry Fisher's 1869 Penmanship Practice with Great Word Combinations! hand-written numbers to how to tell the

to how to tell the age of a horse by its teeth

pipe-cleaners for arms and neck

Pretty clever

but with a round mark on the bottom

Cream colored pieces show a little age/darkening

Henry Fisher's 1869 Penmanship Practice with Great Word Combinations! hand-written numbers to how to tell theI'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,