Milton Bradley Froebel Kindergarten Materials Catalog, 1896 shoe shaped Southcombe

Southcombe

it seems in no jeopardy of coming apart

The original sticker on the back of this box is worn off

Grossman’s was once a fixture on the South Shore of Boston

but not tiny: 4" t x 3 5/8" w x 3/4" d

Milton Bradley Froebel Kindergarten Materials Catalog, 1896 shoe shaped SouthcombeThis 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