Lila Wise's 1898 Penmanship Practice Notebook with Both Strange and Poignant Sentences dead stock I just love the look

I just love the look of these old hard plastic mini billiard balls--a great mix of colors satisfying just thrown together into a bowl

12" l x 1 7/8" t x 1/4" thick and in beautiful antique condition

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 I just love the lookAs 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