Smiling Bright Eyed Pottery Kid mcfalls sign 1900 Milton Bradley Kindergarten Blocks

1900 Milton Bradley Kindergarten Blocks sets designed by Friedrich Froebel

I realized after photographing it (at 2x magnification) that the recesses between feathers need a little scrub

12 printed pages each plus blank endpapers

just large enough to stick the tip of a pen or pencil inside

This is the mother of them

Smiling Bright Eyed Pottery Kid mcfalls sign 1900 Milton Bradley Kindergarten BlocksI pulled this guy out of a box filled with pinch pots and the like, I think mostly the work of the child of a potter though perhaps there was a little collaboration involved on the painted face of this one. A few pots in the box were dated from 1991, so think this is about that age. I imagine it delivering greetings like "good morning!" everytime I look at it, and it seems pretty much like the pure embodiment of a hug! 4 3 4" t x 2 3 4" w x 2" d and