1930s-1960s French School Notebooks with Maps, Drawings, Penmanship - Lot of Three early modern but just great small sculptures

but  just great small sculptures wherever one puts them

framed on all sides by these exuberant decorative flourishes

6 3/4" tall x 5 " (leg to leg) x 4 1/4" from end of handle to bracket

with real pick

and that very long body

1930s-1960s French School Notebooks with Maps, Drawings, Penmanship - Lot of Three early modern but just great small sculpturesThis is a lot of three French school notebooks found together but which span 30+ years, so I'm guessing it was the teacher who was the throughline. You know I have a hard time resisting school notebooks, and hand drawn maps, too, so of course I had to bring these home. And many many maps there are, detailing France in many aspects and iterations, but other parts of the world, too. Plus penmanship, a bit of arithmetic, poems with illustrations, and