Jacob A. Paul's 1838 Ghent, NY Penmanship Practice Book the book of tea possibly Inuit but unsigned and

possibly Inuit but unsigned and I'm not entirely sure

hinged box

with minor cracking on the surface of the leather and wear/aging to the brass on the coin slot and to the brass Walsco lock

but am not entirely sure

The combination of sky and sea on this one I think is especially great

Jacob A. Paul's 1838 Ghent, NY Penmanship Practice Book the book of tea possibly Inuit but unsigned andI've had a number of British earlyish 19th century penmanship practice notebooks in the shop but this is the first American one, of a Jacob A. Paul I believe, of Ghent, NY, dated 1838. And it is quite different from the British in construction with a simple un dyed pulp paper cover, hand stitched binding, and then pages of various colors inside pink, green, yellow, some quite brilliant in tone. And no fraktur type headers here just page after page