Scarce Complete c. 1860s Hill's No. 12 Kindergarten Alphabet Blocks Set with Plain and Cursive Letters welded iron bug salvaged and put to use

salvaged and put to use

with the bill of rights ratified the following year

one from WWI

Certainly made as a barn hook

Abul Hamid II (Sultan of the Ottoman Empire)

Scarce Complete c. 1860s Hill's No. 12 Kindergarten Alphabet Blocks Set with Plain and Cursive Letters welded iron bug salvaged and put to useGorgeous, and useful too. This is a scarce, early (c. 1860s), complete set of Hill's Alphabet blocks especially rare for showing three iterations of each letter on the face of each block: upper and lower case cursive plus upper case block letter in between. (And I will admit that I as if a child of five or six myself have found them useful this week as reference tools in helping me decipher some 19th c. handwriting!) This is a complete set, A through