Late 1800s Prang's Drawing Models "Tablets" Set wooden stand and perhaps the perfect gift

and perhaps the perfect gift for shoe hound--or an avid walker

with a bit of paint loss as evident

Wonderfully primitive face and body

with a platform to boot so one might arrange all sorts of other little things around as desire

I might guess 1940s-50s

Late 1800s Prang's Drawing Models "Tablets" Set wooden stand and perhaps the perfect giftNo geometric solids in this late 19th c. Prang's "Drawing Models" box, but nearly all of the flat "tablets" or flat cardboard shape templates are present, plus original ruler, scissors and a few colored sticks, too. I think these are interesting to play around with and use in all sorts of ways as stencils but also as means of building patterns and compositions and just thinking visually. (Spreading them out and moving them around makes me at least