Honor to Whom Honor is Due, Bertha Hurd's 1892 Penmanship Notebook, Full japanese Okimono insect Signed with syllabics on the

Signed with syllabics on the underside

2 7/8” across at neck

each labeled in gold lettering with the month/letters of the alphabet and terminating with "Sundries" at the rear

and consistently inventive and surprising--and this one combines two of my favorite things one: a portrait and a map

birds flying toward a birdhouse with sticks in their beaks

Honor to Whom Honor is Due, Bertha Hurd's 1892 Penmanship Notebook, Full japanese Okimono insect Signed with syllabics on theYou know I can't resist an old penmanship practice notebook, each its own thing and interesting for different reasons, including for how the sentences written over and over and over again embody the values of the times in this which they were completed, and what was being drilled into the brains of students at that time. This one, dated 1892, is I believe the first I've seen that actually included the sentence "Children should be seen and not heard."