Kindergarten Embroidery Card, Girl Dragging Her Dolls! tramp art wall pocket The game is played by

The game is played by removing the blank square and mixing up the other numbered squares

Photos follow the sequence pretty much as it goes

with the style of those carved numbers making me believe it dates to the late 19th/early 20th century

What I realized through the process of photographing it is how much it seems to reference folk art traditions

16" long (the handle itself is 14 5/8" long)

Kindergarten Embroidery Card, Girl Dragging Her Dolls! tramp art wall pocket The game is played byPunch paper embroidery cards were an aspect of Froebel's kindergarten program, though I believe printed figurative ones like this were less open ended than he would have proscribed. The printed image on this one, though, I think is so good, with this girl in her hat dragging one doll by the arm like a misbehaving child, while towing another little one along behind her in a box on a string, unminded and the face on that one really does it for me!