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Square box-shape with one open end for nesting graduated-sized blocks; pine carcasses covbered with white printed paper depicting children at play and verses in polychrome, on the sides of each box; letters of the alphabet printed in red on a gold ground are on the tops of each: .1 - A, .2 - B, .3 - C, .4 - DEFG, .5 - HIJK, .6 - LMNO, .7 - PQRS, .8 - TUVWXYZ.
alphabet blocks
pine (wood)
paper (fiber product)
printing (process)
alphabet blocks
poetry
early childhood education
Education
Childhood
Alphabet
Block, Alphabet
Used At Hamilton House (South Berwick, Me.),
Unknown
6 x 2 5/8 x 2 5/8 (HxWxD) (inches)
Bequest of Elizabeth R. Vaughan
1949.757.1-8
Probably North America (North and Central America) [general region]
Probably Germany
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