Antique Milton Bradley Froebel Kindergarten Gift #2 Slide Top Box, Empty folk art toy car black painted body

black painted body

a near complete pad of score sheets

With inset eyes (black painted wood I believe) and pronounced brows and nostrils

From a second batch of drawings by the prolific and endlessly inventive Chicago artist James Frederic Bone (1929-2015)

including the phenomenal Hector Hyppolite

Antique Milton Bradley Froebel Kindergarten Gift #2 Slide Top Box, Empty folk art toy car black painted bodyJust an (almost) empty one, but which I thought would make a perfect pencil box, and you know I love all things early kindergarten and early Milton Bradley, too. This box once held Froebel's "Gift 2", which consisted of geometric blocks cube, cylinder and sphere that suspended by string from a wooden armature. The top bar of that armature, from which they would hang, remains in this box, and the vertical struts of that armature would have fit into the