Honor to Whom Honor is Due, Bertha Hurd's 1892 Penmanship Notebook, Full stella It doesn't take a whole

It doesn't take a whole lot to sell me on a naive 19th century painting with sheep and a sheepherder in it

Larger increments approx 1"

51 1/2" long

German Erzgebirge hand-painted houses—these four especially special for all being doubles

wonderfully evocative--and I think the forms of those capital letters

Honor to Whom Honor is Due, Bertha Hurd's 1892 Penmanship Notebook, Full stella It doesn't take a wholeYou 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."