Henry Fisher's 1869 Penmanship Practice with Great Word Combinations! pretty vase This beautiful small pottery plate

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

maybe as a cloche over a head of garlic

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

Nailed together of scrap wood salvaged from old crates

as much as anything else in the world

Henry Fisher's 1869 Penmanship Practice with Great Word Combinations! pretty vase This beautiful small pottery plateI'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,