Without a Friend The World is a Wilderness, Late 19th C. Penmanship Practice Notebook candlesnuffer held stable by the wrap

held stable by the wrap

but based on the fact that there were several variations of this print at the sale

I can see that under the red paper there is glass on the underside of the lid

I am not a costume expert

maybe used for hitching

Without a Friend The World is a Wilderness, Late 19th C. Penmanship Practice Notebook candlesnuffer held stable by the wrapAnother old penmanship practice notebook, as I can never resist these either. Not a ton of pages to this one, and I think one could be forgiven for carefully extracting a page or two to frame I would be disposed to choose the page full of "Without a friend the world is a wilderness," though "Distance is the best remedy against evil disposed men" is pretty great too, and good advice I'd say, and I love how the "men" at the end of the line angle up and