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Copy stick used to teach to write. One side reads 'Remembrances', the other 'Be courteous to strangers'. Between 1860-1870 West Yorkshire.
A copy stick used to help teach people to write. Used around 1865 in West Yorkshire, at the school of the donor's great-uncle. This is a copy stick, used to help teach people to write. It consists of a stick of wood, a strip of paper bearing a copper-plate inscription (printed) on each side of the wood. One side reads 'Knowledge of ourselves is of importance', the other side reads 'Emulate virtuous deeds'. It was known to have been used between 1860 and 1870 in West Yorkshire, at the school of the donor's great-uncle.

1 copy stick: wood, paper

1860

Wood, Paper