Make Do Alphabet Blocks: Antique German Paper Litho Blocks with Gorgeous Black Inked Letters fancy treen box I understand from the seller

I understand from the seller I bought this from that it was found on Cape Cod

which I now find impossible not to hold in mind as I look at this one and which makes this landscape feel anything but naive

Price is for both block sets together

I much prefer to shepherd things along to others with greater knowledge than to sit on them myself

with the hair secured with tiny white stitches

Make Do Alphabet Blocks: Antique German Paper Litho Blocks with Gorgeous Black Inked Letters fancy treen box I understand from the sellerThese made me so happy to find, and make me so glad to look at. They are antique German paper litho covered puzzle blocks, clearly once part of a larger set, which, though well worn, appear to depict animals in various habitats. But, sometime long ago, someone beautifully inked watercolored large black letters onto one side of each, turning them into alphabet blocks! I find those letters absolutely gorgeous (looking as if modeled on a Hills alphabet