Two Beautiful Old Wooden Forms graphic pattern 14 3/8” l x 7/8”

14 3/8” l x 7/8” w and in good condition

with the mirror-like surface of the daguerreotype making images like this all the more so

paper cover

this wonderful leaping dog

It weighs pretty much exactly a pound so perhaps was made as a whimsical weight

Two Beautiful Old Wooden Forms graphic pattern 14 3/8” l x 7/8”One of the things I read over holiday break was Norman Brosterman's Inventing Kindergarten, about Frederick Froebel and his philosophies about early learning, which lead to his creation of kindergarten and the "gifts" which were central to it. One of the things it made think about was the centrality of play in leading to understanding, and also about how things (like a wooden block) placed in relationship to other things (like a wooden sphere)