June 02, 2004

19th Century Swedish Copybook. 'This is the first page of my great-grandfather's copybook. There could have been a separate wrapper or cover that did not survive.'
'Dated December 9, 1858, the book was signed by C.Damm, a writing tutor in Wirestad, 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) ... '
  • Fascinating. Cheers, Plep.
  • ok, this I won't translate. :)
  • Plep, interesting stuff, as usual. Carry on.
  • why i love the internet!
  • Beautiful stuff, plep. You monkeys find the goods, I tell you. The really juicy ants, way down deep in the tree trunk.
  • A fascinating relic of another rime. Thanks, plep.
  • I need to get new eyes. I kept reading it as Swedish Cookbook. And wondering where the recipe for meatballs was. Good site, plep. You have full permission to slap me silly.