19th Century Rewards of Merit Group 3 (Blank and Ready to Use!) collectible knife Wilis’ name and the year

Wilis’ name and the year 1883 appears on one page of the sketcbook

with holes along left edge

only one of them dated on the back

late 19th c or so

19th Century Rewards of Merit Group 3 (Blank and Ready to Use!) collectible knife Wilis’ name and the yearThe existence of rewards of merit makes me glad, given from teachers to students to affirm their good efforts, as does the fact that people saved them. Last weekend I found a large collection of them in a box in Midcoast Maine quite a nice variety of them, which I've divided into three groups, all listed today. The ones in this group were never filled in with the names of students, so I thought nice to group together, as one could fill them in and