Early 20th C. Alphabet Sewing Cards Japanese school book Perhaps this one was underwater

Perhaps this one was underwater

The box has clearly seen some watercoloring

A sweet old German Erzgebirge stable

I love the shape of these boxes too

4 1/8” w x 3 1/8” t x 2 1/16” d and in very good

Early 20th C. Alphabet Sewing Cards Japanese school book Perhaps this one was underwaterMaybe Milton Bradley, maybe some other company producing learning materials for kindergarten, I'm not sure as I have not turned up another set of alphabet sewing lacing cards like these, which I believe likely date to the 1920s or. Whatever the case, I'll never resist a good alphabet, and love the color of the thread used on these, and the combination of the capital and lower case letters, and the way Us and Vs and W's are partially lost, and the XYZs