Early 20th C. Alphabet Sewing Cards bisque doll See photos for detail

See photos for detail

but part of why I love it so much is that it looks it has lived quite a life

I really love the form

These were awarded to a young "Master Charley Geoppinger" in the late 1870s or so by a couple of different teachers - two of them for a hundred merits

Early 20th C. Alphabet Sewing Cards bisque doll See photos for detailMaybe Milton Bradley, maybe some other company producing learning materials for kindergarten, I'm not sure as I have not turned up another set of alphabet sewing lacing cards like these, which I believe likely date to the 1920s or. Whatever the case, I'll never resist a good alphabet, and love the color of the thread used on these, and the combination of the capital and lower case letters, and the way Us and Vs and W's are partially lost, and the XYZs