Early Milton Bradley Froebel Kindergarten Blocks - Gift 5 Box, 27 Square Blocks carved woman's head and also the carving's thinness--not

and also the carving's thinness--not much more than a silhouette treading stealthily along his base

8 3/8" x 6 7/8" x 7/16"

9 1/2" l (or tall) x 1 1/4" w x 1" d

printed squares with copyright info on reverse

a "Nutting Party

Early Milton Bradley Froebel Kindergarten Blocks - Gift 5 Box, 27 Square Blocks carved woman's head and also the carving's thinness--notI've been reading up on Froebel's invention of kindergarten of late and getting all of Froebel's "Gifts" straight; as I've found is sometimes the case, this is actually 27 undivided cube blocks combined in a Gift No. 5 box, which would originally have housed a combination of undivided cubes and others divided in halves or quarters.(While Gift 3 would have consisted of 8 solid cubes.) So, a hybrid, surely product of a kindergarten with many sets of