Antique Bone Alphabet, Complete, in Slide Top Box  handmade toy ) Really a special thing

) Really a special thing

with chicken on one side and egg on the other

6 1/2" across at legs

The way the long fingers of her left hand spread protectively over her dog's shoulder

This little case its healing help will lend

Antique Bone Alphabet, Complete, in Slide Top Box  handmade toy ) Really a special thingI've always got an eye out for beautiful 19th c. carved bone alphabets, which as I understand it were used in school as tools for teaching spelling. And certainly one could make a game of it now to see how many words one can spell with these 26 letters! A complete set, of more or less the same size, which I found box less (as is usually the case) but have placed in a nice old small handmade slide top box that seems a perfect fit and will keep them