1930s-1960s French School Notebooks with Maps, Drawings, Penmanship - Lot of Three forest painting The sliding top works fine

The sliding top works fine

painted silver

but I find them super satisfying just set somewhere arranged in a row or stacked as pictured

with screw clasp

which I have not tried to clean but appears it would likely come off

1930s-1960s French School Notebooks with Maps, Drawings, Penmanship - Lot of Three forest painting The sliding top works fineThis 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