Very Much Loved and Very Charming c. 1920s Language Learning Picture Cards antique Japanese sake bottle which may have been the

which may have been the vehicle through which this piece was sold

one can see that the leaves of the trees above them have actually been pieces together from a couple of different photos

maybe occasionally jotting a few references to a lesson

with no damage at all to the carving

I'm not at all a photography expert

Very Much Loved and Very Charming c. 1920s Language Learning Picture Cards antique Japanese sake bottle which may have been theI don't know who produced these and can't find another set out there, but the excellent graphics on them remind me somewhat of old Teulia Fortune Telling Cards from the early 1920s, of which I've had a few decks, and I'd bet these date to about then. And someone(s) certainly loved them expanding their vocabulary in four directions, with English, French, Spanish and Italian words for the pictured object around the perimeter of each card. A couple show