Scarce 1897 Hood's Spelling School Game, Complete, with Extensive Rules Booklet-- and Sarsaparilla Advertising! etched glass vase and very tightly packed with

and very tightly packed with what I'd guess is sawdust

These formal drawings are dated 1858 (I can't quite read the signature)

even better for being able to rotate one section independently from the other

I have no idea the backstory to this old handmade copper hand

featuring language that amplifies all sorts of associations with the word "shuttlecock"

Scarce 1897 Hood's Spelling School Game, Complete, with Extensive Rules Booklet-- and Sarsaparilla Advertising! etched glass vase and very tightly packed withThis is a scarce one like Anagrams, but with bright yellow letters, the backs of them printed with Hood's Sarsaparilla, a root beer like drink promoted as a health tonic with far ranging benefits. Those benefits are details in the printed booklet, which, far more usefully, includes many pages of details for different and increasingly sophisticated games to be played with these letters and which, I do believe, make a compelling argument for them as