Complete Antique Carved Bone Alphabet in Slide Top Box strange painting The flat sky-aqua blue ground

The flat sky-aqua blue ground on this c

and am completely taken with her

I found a near exact match of this sweet old tin kangaroo that had been sold by an antique toy specialist online for $75

with no splits or cracks or other issues

but often one sees porcelain manufactured in one country and decorated in another

Complete Antique Carved Bone Alphabet in Slide Top Box strange painting The flat sky-aqua blue groundIm always opening small Victorian era boxes just like this one hoping to find bone letters inside, and, happily, here were these! A complete capital letter alphabet inside, A to Z, which looks likely a merger of a couple of different sets, as there are some letters a bit taller and wider and thicker than others. I understand that these were originally used as an aid for teaching children the alphabet and spellingand how much more enjoyable that would