Lila Wise's 1898 Penmanship Practice Notebook with Both Strange and Poignant Sentences dead stock The paper label on the

The paper label on the underside of the lid reads "John Moore

It is a fairly delicate piece in good antique condition

producing the same scale a semitone higher in each hole

with each letter of each name carefully carved in capital letters against stippled grounds

with the exception being the center front foot on the underside--which is a positive loss I think

Lila Wise's 1898 Penmanship Practice Notebook with Both Strange and Poignant Sentences dead stock The paper label on theAs you likely know by now, I've a special weakness for penmanship practice notebooks of all sorts, for all different sorts of reasons, high among them being the specific words and phrases chosen for repetition, which take on added resonance for being written over and over again (and also tell us a lot about the times, including the values being stealthily drilled into children! ) This one, published in 1899, struck me first for the sentence "Burnt