Rare Mid 19th Century "Infant's Alphabet" With Two Handmade Additions to Make Complete slab dish All the better for the

All the better for the what looks like a blood dripping from his forehead and a larger splotch of it on his chest

easy to add a few small nails as needed

the delight of a second face on the underside of the lid

and thought how handy one of these would be to keep one of these in one's flea market bag

Certainly this could be used as a needle/pin keep now

Rare Mid 19th Century "Infant's Alphabet" With Two Handmade Additions to Make Complete slab dish All the better for theTo my eye a complete charming thing, and I've never seen another set like this somewhat akin to antique carved bone alphabets, meant to teach spelling, but in this case a paper alphabet with hand colored pictures to boot. The label on the lid of the turned wooden box reads "Infant's Alphabet", with the image of a girl holding doll at center. Inside, 28 rounds cut of heavy paper card, with letters of the alphabet on one side and hand colored engraved