Milton Bradley Froebel Kindergarten Materials Catalog, 1896 measuring glass It looks to me like

It looks to me like an old one too

2 3/8" t x 1 1/4" w x 2" d including tail

Frame measures 11 3/16" x 8" and both it and the watercolor (behind glass) are in very very good condition

but which at some point was central to the life of someone

which is the case with this funny coil formed

Milton Bradley Froebel Kindergarten Materials Catalog, 1896 measuring glass It looks to me likeThis was really fun to find and, for someone like me obsessed with Froebel kindergarten, it reads like a wish list of one thing after another I am forever hoping to find, including all of the Froebel "Gifts": blocks and parquetry sets, ruled slates, sticks and rings for laying, papers for weaving and folding, perforated cards for yarn drawing, etc. Pages and pages detailing all of the different colors of varieties of paper available, and all of the