Early Milton Bradley Froebel Kindergarten Blocks - Gift 5 Box, 27 Square Blocks carved woman's head there is a small hole

there is a small hole on one cheek that I assume is a moth hole and a small patch of tiny holes on the skirt that I think are too

printed squares with copyright info on reverse

9 1/2" l (or tall) x 1 1/4" w x 1" d

and also the carving's thinness--not much more than a silhouette treading stealthily along his base

structurally sound and stable

Early Milton Bradley Froebel Kindergarten Blocks - Gift 5 Box, 27 Square Blocks carved woman's head there is a small holeI've been reading up on Froebel's invention of kindergarten of late and getting all of Froebel's "Gifts" straight; as I've found is sometimes the case, this is actually 27 undivided cube blocks combined in a Gift No. 5 box, which would originally have housed a combination of undivided cubes and others divided in halves or quarters.(While Gift 3 would have consisted of 8 solid cubes.) So, a hybrid, surely product of a kindergarten with many sets of