Complete Antique Carved Bone Alphabet in Slide Top Box folk art pipe rack to its four sweet hand-carved

to its four sweet hand-carved feet--the love and labor is deeply palpable

but I think this very early ‘90s hand-painted checkerboard makes a pretty strong argument for a more contemporary iteration

so likely they were once even more colorful than they are now

bright orange

with blue base to match the bedcovers and curtains

Complete Antique Carved Bone Alphabet in Slide Top Box folk art pipe rack to its four sweet hand-carvedIm always opening small Victorian era boxes just like this one hoping to find bone letters inside, and, happily, here were these! A complete capital letter alphabet inside, A to Z, which looks likely a merger of a couple of different sets, as there are some letters a bit taller and wider and thicker than others. I understand that these were originally used as an aid for teaching children the alphabet and spellingand how much more enjoyable that would