Early Milton Bradley Froebel Kindergarten Blocks - Gift 5 Box, 27 Square Blocks fire photograph The kin of these Japanese

The kin of these Japanese nesting eggs are the treen apples one sees around from time to time housing a spinning horse race game inside

which I also think is pretty genius: of course one wants to see inside a piggy bank to watch one's nickels and dimes accumulating

possibly with a couple of very tiny chips but if so super minor

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

I am sure there were once two of them

Early Milton Bradley Froebel Kindergarten Blocks - Gift 5 Box, 27 Square Blocks fire photograph The kin of these JapaneseI'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