SOLD Divide Your Portion Among the Poor, Nancy Crouses's 1830-31 Short but Great Penmanship Notebook geometric solid with the hand-painted pipe rendered

with the hand-painted pipe rendered in relief

in an ugly newer frame

or to pin proudly to your coveralls before heading out to the garden

Whether or not anyone buys them

I believe these may be early prototypes: there is a hand-painted signature on the bottom of one that says only "A"

SOLD Divide Your Portion Among the Poor, Nancy Crouses's 1830-31 Short but Great Penmanship Notebook geometric solid with the hand-painted pipe renderedOne of two penmanship notebooks today from members of the Crouse family of Oppenheim, Montgomery County, NY, this one the work of young Nancy (b. 1817), sister of Peter, whose notebook is listed separately. This one is shorter, completed one year earlier, and contains some gems; I would have bought it for the first page shown here alone. "Honour Your Parents," "Evil communication corrupts good manners," and "Man is made to mourn," too. I've become