Many Men of Many Minds...Daniel Zigler's Charming, Unusual 1847 Penmanship Notebook pull toy dog in a vintage Pennsylvania-style painted

in a vintage Pennsylvania-style painted solid  wood frame wired for hanging

I've gotten pretty picky about the folk art doorstops I bring home

but I do believe George Washington and John Wayne are among them

7 1/4” l measured on the square x 7 1/4” t x 1 1/2” d (base

but also doubles as a pedestal should one want to display him legs up

Many Men of Many Minds...Daniel Zigler's Charming, Unusual 1847 Penmanship Notebook pull toy dog in a vintage Pennsylvania-style paintedYou know by now that early penmanship notebooks are one of my very favorite things, and having looked at many many at this point it takes special and unusual ones to excite me, which is the case with this one. The work of a Daniel Zigler, dated 1847, it features phrases I have not seen in one of these before, repeated many many times (not just one page's worth, but multiple pages of the same phrase.) And fun ones! "Many men of many minds, many birds