Complete Antique Carved Bone Alphabet in Slide Top Box strange painting Paper is somewhat brittle but

Paper is somewhat brittle but overall good condition

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

with no splits or cracks or other issues

The flat sky-aqua blue ground on this c

because how nice to muddle fruit or herbs or other cocktail ingredient with a beautiful muddler

Complete Antique Carved Bone Alphabet in Slide Top Box strange painting Paper is somewhat brittle butIm 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