ROCK IN! 1908 Postmarked Real Photo Postcard, Branchport, NY primitive dice And they're beautiful and fun

And they're beautiful and fun to make patterns and structures with

so better I think for serving stew than soup

I can never leave folios of school drawings like this behind--even as some of the exercises featured have become familiar to me from having handled a number of them

Gold/brass wire extending from the legs was pierced through the wooden base to make it stand completely sturdy and stable

The wood is a beautiful warm brown and all the better for the scrapes and scratches--but no splits--all over

ROCK IN! 1908 Postmarked Real Photo Postcard, Branchport, NY primitive dice And they're beautiful and funSuch a fun one. I have not done a very deep dive but a quick search pointed me to Frog Rock in Eastford, CT, a glacial boulder painted to resemble a frog in 1881 by state legislator Thomas J. Thurber, who thought its natural shape resembled a squatting frog. This frog painted rock does NOT appear to be that one, but suggests a late 19th early 20th century trend toward painting boulders to resemble frogs, perhaps especially common in Connecticut! And