Complete Antique Carved Bone Alphabet in Slide Top Box folk art pipe rack to its four sweet hand-carved

to its four sweet hand-carved feet--the love and labor is deeply palpable

Coppess of Sunfield

though the pale pink of the baby's face I think may be hand-colored

The sweetgrass has broken in one spot on the body of the basket and in one area along the edge of the lid

bright orange

Complete Antique Carved Bone Alphabet in Slide Top Box folk art pipe rack to its four sweet hand-carvedIm 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