Lot of 4 Mid 19th Century Penmanship Practice Notebooks signed Inuit sculpture with a small clean tear

with a small clean tear along the right edge

and one wooden dominoe-shaped rectangular that serves as a "plug" to keep them from rattling around in the box

Many of these old turned and painted wooden apples--made in Japan for the Western market-- housed roulette style horse racing games and the like

” dates it prior to 1941 from what I have learned

Lot of 4 Mid 19th Century Penmanship Practice Notebooks signed Inuit sculpture with a small clean tearThough it's a bit difficult to discern some of the handwriting (!), these four notebooks appear to have been the property of a couple of different members of the Heath family of Boston I can clearly read John Heath on one, and I believe Adelbert on a couple of others, and the years 1849 and 1850 appear. I love the paperback covers on these, especially the "lessons in drawings" animals and geometric shapes. Inside, they vary: >>one (the one with