Scarce Complete c. 1860s Hill's No. 12 Kindergarten Alphabet Blocks Set with Plain and Cursive Letters welded iron bug A little damage to this

A little damage to this antique landscape

who made these drawings

one from WWI

salvaged and put to use

is one of my very favorite recent finds

Scarce Complete c. 1860s Hill's No. 12 Kindergarten Alphabet Blocks Set with Plain and Cursive Letters welded iron bug A little damage to thisGorgeous, 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