Early Milton Bradley Froebel Kindergarten Blocks - Gift 5 Box, 27 Square Blocks fire photograph “the gyspy queen

“the gyspy queen

which I also think is pretty genius: of course one wants to see inside a piggy bank to watch one's nickels and dimes accumulating

The valediction "devotre ami" seems more aligned with the latter possibility

The kin of these Japanese nesting eggs are the treen apples one sees around from time to time housing a spinning horse race game inside

so it is best laying horizontally

Early Milton Bradley Froebel Kindergarten Blocks - Gift 5 Box, 27 Square Blocks fire photograph “the gyspy queenI've been reading up on Froebel's invention of kindergarten of late and getting all of Froebel's "Gifts" straight; as I've found is sometimes the case, this is actually 27 undivided cube blocks combined in a Gift No. 5 box, which would originally have housed a combination of undivided cubes and others divided in halves or quarters.(While Gift 3 would have consisted of 8 solid cubes.) So, a hybrid, surely product of a kindergarten with many sets of