Henry Fisher's 1869 Penmanship Practice with Great Word Combinations! pretty vase as much as anything else

as much as anything else in the world

This beautiful small pottery plate with two spiraling fish is a bit of a mystery

This is a striking large carved wooden whimsy tower with four levels of balls in cages

One could wrap the edges around a stretcher

Henry Fisher's 1869 Penmanship Practice with Great Word Combinations! pretty vase as much as anything elseI'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,