cited by the Library of Congress in 2012 as one of 88 "Books That Shaped America
but thought these two particularly so good together I'd list them as a pair
and clearly a bid wounded now
I've seen powder horns carved into like scrimshaw (which I always covet) and plenty with hand-carved wooden plugs at both ends
with what looks like a leaf caught just inside in the frame
Perfectly Designed and Creatively Inspiring Ideal Fractional Tablets Set, Complete victorian fly fin cited by the Library ofI'm always excited to find beautifully designed old creative learning materials, and am especially enamored with this set of "Fraction Learning Tablets" produced by the Ideal School Supply Co. of Chicago, another set of which I've never seen. Not designed by Frederick Froebel, but completely aligned with his blocks sets here with paper "tablets" divided into halves, thirds, quarters, etc., and purple cardboard shapes of corresponding, sequentially