Richard Thurston's 1929 Penmanship Practice Native American clay pot with no cracks or splits

with no cracks or splits or any other flaws of note that I can see

This piece thus makes perfect sense

One sees lots of old handmade wooden doorstops of a similar manner

those eyes are always watching

Richard Thurston's 1929 Penmanship Practice Native American clay pot with no cracks or splitsA far cry from the gorgeous 18th century penmanship notebooks I recently posted, but still, the art of practicing letters was alive and well in 1929, and Richard Page Thurston was trying hard, though I do notice his penmanship goes somewhat downhill rather than getting better as he progresses through this stack of exercises, joined with a simple brass butterfly clip at top. What I especially like about these is the repetition of a single letter over