Sweet Little Set of Wooden Alphabet Blocks trompe l'oieul 1860 to the present)

1860 to the present)

though certainly would be useful for all sorts of detail oriented tasks

and her face and fantastic mane give it a late 60s/early 70s feel to me

as he stares wide eyed (those blue blue eyes

Initialed EMB it appears and dated 1903 at lower right

Sweet Little Set of Wooden Alphabet Blocks trompe l'oieul 1860 to the present)What I especially like about this old set of little wooden blocks is the subtlety of the embossed letters on them, just a shade lighter than the blocks themselves, and also how much the font used reminds me of antique cut bone letters, which from what I understand were an early took for teaching spelling in school. Here we've got A Z plus an extra G and D, I assume a nod to GOD (or maybe Good!) The other sides of the blocks are blank one side ribbed,