Antique Bone Alphabet, Complete, in Slide Top Box  make-do game t I think this guy

t I think this guy was much loved and well cared for

inset ship

staring out right at us

and even better with a special pointed end flourish like this one

and for me at least it carries a very different sort of weight

Antique Bone Alphabet, Complete, in Slide Top Box  make-do game t I think this guyI've always got an eye out for beautiful 19th c. carved bone alphabets, which as I understand it were used in school as tools for teaching spelling. And certainly one could make a game of it now to see how many words one can spell with these 26 letters! A complete set, of more or less the same size, which I found box less (as is usually the case) but have placed in a nice old small handmade slide top box that seems a perfect fit and will keep them