Without a Friend The World is a Wilderness, Late 19th C. Penmanship Practice Notebook antique staffordshire 2 3/8" tall

2 3/8" tall

There is one area where the cloth has come a bit apart from the box around the top edge of one side

but this perfectly executed doggy jumped through all the hoops to pass the test

there is not sawdust spilling out

A little bit of roughness--not quite a perfectly sharp point--at the tip

Without a Friend The World is a Wilderness, Late 19th C. Penmanship Practice Notebook antique staffordshire 2 3/8" tallAnother old penmanship practice notebook, as I can never resist these either. Not a ton of pages to this one, and I think one could be forgiven for carefully extracting a page or two to frame I would be disposed to choose the page full of "Without a friend the world is a wilderness," though "Distance is the best remedy against evil disposed men" is pretty great too, and good advice I'd say, and I love how the "men" at the end of the line angle up and