Make Do Alphabet Blocks: Antique German Paper Litho Blocks with Gorgeous Black Inked Letters wooden house Minor curvature to the card

Minor curvature to the card

in substance and even more so in implication and application

One finds Victorian era Tangram sets around in wood or ceramic and comprised of seven flat polygons to be arranged in a square

with the expression on the face of the mother (best seen in digital positive) just devastating

) A fathoms scale would have been used for sea depth sounding--in conjunction

Make Do Alphabet Blocks: Antique German Paper Litho Blocks with Gorgeous Black Inked Letters wooden house Minor curvature to the cardThese made me so happy to find, and make me so glad to look at. They are antique German paper litho covered puzzle blocks, clearly once part of a larger set, which, though well worn, appear to depict animals in various habitats. But, sometime long ago, someone beautifully inked watercolored large black letters onto one side of each, turning them into alphabet blocks! I find those letters absolutely gorgeous (looking as if modeled on a Hills alphabet