Many Men of Many Minds...Daniel Zigler's Charming, Unusual 1847 Penmanship Notebook prison made but I especially love these

but I especially love these small look-alike sets  produced in West Germany for the WISC IQ test

who I believe was the relative

It seems beautiful glass microscope slides are finding me lately --and these antique French ones with handwritten specimen descriptions on lithographed paper labels I think are just so lovely

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Many Men of Many Minds...Daniel Zigler's Charming, Unusual 1847 Penmanship Notebook prison made but I especially love theseYou know by now that early penmanship notebooks are one of my very favorite things, and having looked at many many at this point it takes special and unusual ones to excite me, which is the case with this one. The work of a Daniel Zigler, dated 1847, it features phrases I have not seen in one of these before, repeated many many times (not just one page's worth, but multiple pages of the same phrase.) And fun ones! "Many men of many minds, many birds