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) as well as its embrace of the chance effects of drip glazing--making it feel quite modern too

while a latch on the front keeps it snugly closed

shape and size

The green-painted letters on one side

Scarce Complete c. 1860s Hill's No. 12 Kindergarten Alphabet Blocks Set with Plain and Cursive Letters vintage Childs abacus ) as well as itsGorgeous, and useful too. This is a scarce, early (c. 1860s), complete set of Hill's Alphabet blocks especially rare for showing three iterations of each letter on the face of each block: upper and lower case cursive plus upper case block letter in between. (And I will admit that I as if a child of five or six myself have found them useful this week as reference tools in helping me decipher some 19th c. handwriting!) This is a complete set, A through