Early Milton Bradley Froebel Kindergarten Blocks - Gift 5 Box, 27 Square Blocks fire photograph and I love the resonance

and I love the resonance of "copy": copy referring to content

The valediction "devotre ami" seems more aligned with the latter possibility

Total love at first sight with this doll

Another wonderful Inuit carving full of nuance and depth

I am sure there were once two of them

Early Milton Bradley Froebel Kindergarten Blocks - Gift 5 Box, 27 Square Blocks fire photograph and I love the resonanceI'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