http://www.jastown.com/blog Info for 18th century reenactors, students and other interested folks. Fri, 24 May 2013 05:28:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 http://www.jastown.com/blog/?page_id=27#comment-2966 Mon, 01 Mar 2010 11:05:38 +0000 http://www.jastown.com/blog/?page_id=27#comment-2966 [...] If Moleskines are a throwback to a time before PDA’s, then 18th century version of the PDA is the pocket notebook  made of sturdy brass stock with 4 old ivory pages and a pencil can be written on with pencil, smudged off with your finger, and used over and over again. It closes into a 1-1/8 inches by 4-1/2 inches by 3/16 inch thick package. It seems like an 18th century version of the Magic Slate. [...] […] If Moleskines are a throwback to a time before PDA’s, then 18th century version of the PDA is the pocket notebook  made of sturdy brass stock with 4 old ivory pages and a pencil can be written on with pencil, smudged off with your finger, and used over and over again. It closes into a 1-1/8 inches by 4-1/2 inches by 3/16 inch thick package. It seems like an 18th century version of the Magic Slate. […]

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