Richard Thurston's 1929 Penmanship Practice Native American clay pot this antique glass paperweight was

this antique glass paperweight was an “Official Souvenir” of the Ferris wheel’s debut at the Chicago World’s Fair in 1893

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

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

However I have found no other like this one

Richard Thurston's 1929 Penmanship Practice Native American clay pot this antique glass paperweight wasA 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