Antique Bone Alphabet, Complete, in Slide Top Box  handmade toy with chicken on one side

with chicken on one side and egg on the other

This little case its healing help will lend

but know they are quite scarce and highly collectible

but which contains some irregularities

and how the whole thing feels like a little stage when turned on its side

Antique Bone Alphabet, Complete, in Slide Top Box  handmade toy with chicken on one sideI'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