Henry Fisher's 1869 Penmanship Practice with Great Word Combinations! pretty vase All in great shape with

All in great shape with a nice patina

great on a desk as as a paperweight or perched atop a pile of books or magazines

make the form feel earthy and organic

Nailed together of scrap wood salvaged from old crates

One could wrap the edges around a stretcher

Henry Fisher's 1869 Penmanship Practice with Great Word Combinations! pretty vase All in great shape withI'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,