Scarce Complete c. 1860s Hill's No. 12 Kindergarten Alphabet Blocks Set with Plain and Cursive Letters welded iron bug Abul Hamid II (Sultan of

Abul Hamid II (Sultan of the Ottoman Empire)

A little damage to this antique landscape

in addition to their collective poise and intense straight ahead stares

one from WWI

Certainly made as a barn hook

Scarce Complete c. 1860s Hill's No. 12 Kindergarten Alphabet Blocks Set with Plain and Cursive Letters welded iron bug Abul Hamid II (Sultan ofGorgeous, 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