- This is the first page
of my great-grandfather's copybook. There could have been
a separate wrapper or cover that did not
survive.
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- Dated December 9, 1858, the book was signed by C.Damm [Carl Damm,1828-1884], a writing tutor in Wirestad [Virestad/G], Sweden. There are 12 pages of handwritten model forms of the Copperplate Script alphabet (sometimes called English Running Hand or Engraver's Script). Side margins appear to have been trimmed off at some time, and new binding holes were punched. The arrangement of pages below seems logical, but punched holes suggest that the leaves were bound in a different sequence. When I received the copybook as a child, the pages were no longer tied together, but wrapped individually in recycled yellow cellophane (smoked ham labels were printed on the cellophane). Each leaf is approximately 83 x 207 mm (3 1/4" x 8 1/8")
- Whose copybook was
this? Genealogy note (click
here).
- Scroll down -- Click
on a page to enlarge
it.
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