Richard Thurston's 1929 Penmanship Practice Native American clay pot This piece thus makes perfect

This piece thus makes perfect sense

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

and I love him all the more for the wear

and the one with the porthole windows looks rather like the old National Maritime Union building in Chelsea

Richard Thurston's 1929 Penmanship Practice Native American clay pot This piece thus makes perfectA 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