Antique Sections of a Sphere Wooden Blocks Set in Finger Jointed Slide Top Box ash glaze complete with eyebrows at the

complete with eyebrows at the rounded end

a large bird

vintage needlepoint purse

4" t x 1 1/4" x 1 1/4"

I have a soft spot for old folky inlaid frames like this

Antique Sections of a Sphere Wooden Blocks Set in Finger Jointed Slide Top Box ash glaze complete with eyebrows at theI recently found a couple of c. 1900 Milton Bradley Kindergarten Blocks sets designed by Friedrich Froebel, which the box and the blocks on this set remind me very much of. I have not been able to find another set like this one out there, which I assume were made to teach the concept of fractions, with five slots in the box corresponding to five sets of blocks, dividing a sphere into 2 then 3, 4, 5 and 6 sections. I can't say for sure that these were