Decorative Gouache Fireside Studios "Practice Board" Paper Lanterns Painting, 1935 educational toy which would become the oldest

which would become the oldest continuously operating independent boarding school in the United States

Hard to imagine who and what all the seat has seen

This wonderful little antique carved wooden cherub I am guessing is French

I assume in the 1970s or so

this feels like a museum piece

Decorative Gouache Fireside Studios "Practice Board" Paper Lanterns Painting, 1935 educational toy which would become the oldestI bought a bunch of these together, my favorites of which I am listing individually, then I'll list another handful together, your choice, at a common price. A little digging reveals that "Fireside Studios" the maker of these "practice boards was a division of Fireside Industries, Adrian, Michigan, which sold and promoted all manner of decorative projects targeted to women at home. With these practice boards, one was to complete decorative painting