Bertuch "Nais Serpentina" Late 18th C Hand-colored Copper Engraving make-do game with no hidden tray for

with no hidden tray for holding marbles so best to keep a little bowl nearby

with great hand-painted red brick around the bottom and for the chimney

This is a charming antique schoolhouse slate chalkboard with a wood frame

As I tried to do some research into the history of railroad signals in order to date--and to fully understand

with light wear to the front and back covers and a small stain at the top center edge of a section of pages

Bertuch "Nais Serpentina" Late 18th C Hand-colored Copper Engraving make-do game with no hidden tray forThis c. 1798 engraving comes from a volume published by Friedrich Justin Bertuch, (1747 1822) famous German publisher, patron of the arts and all around super interesting character worth a quick (or long!) search. Between 1790 and 1830 Betruch printed the "Bilderbuch fr Kinder", appearing in 12 volumes, and including color engravings of all manner of living things, and some mythic ones, too! These I think are renderings of pre or just hatched snakes