Two Beautiful Old Wooden Forms graphic pattern painted on a plywood panel

painted on a plywood panel

this wonderful leaping dog

paper cover

14 3/8” l x 7/8” w and in good condition

and I'd guess they are meant to represent the twins of Gemini

Two Beautiful Old Wooden Forms graphic pattern painted on a plywood panelOne of the things I read over holiday break was Norman Brosterman's Inventing Kindergarten, about Frederick Froebel and his philosophies about early learning, which lead to his creation of kindergarten and the "gifts" which were central to it. One of the things it made think about was the centrality of play in leading to understanding, and also about how things (like a wooden block) placed in relationship to other things (like a wooden sphere)