Early 20th C. Alphabet Sewing Cards bisque doll but part of why I

but part of why I love it so much is that it looks it has lived quite a life

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and some dulling/clouding of the finish on the top

perhaps once part of a set of fireplace tools

There is a split on the interior of the lid that shows inside the box

Early 20th C. Alphabet Sewing Cards bisque doll but part of why IMaybe Milton Bradley, maybe some other company producing learning materials for kindergarten, I'm not sure as I have not turned up another set of alphabet sewing lacing cards like these, which I believe likely date to the 1920s or. Whatever the case, I'll never resist a good alphabet, and love the color of the thread used on these, and the combination of the capital and lower case letters, and the way Us and Vs and W's are partially lost, and the XYZs