Make Do Alphabet Blocks: Antique German Paper Litho Blocks with Gorgeous Black Inked Letters wooden house One finds Victorian era Tangram

One finds Victorian era Tangram sets around in wood or ceramic and comprised of seven flat polygons to be arranged in a square

I am completely smitten with this thing

with the expression on the face of the mother (best seen in digital positive) just devastating

incarnation

Make Do Alphabet Blocks: Antique German Paper Litho Blocks with Gorgeous Black Inked Letters wooden house One finds Victorian era TangramThese made me so happy to find, and make me so glad to look at. They are antique German paper litho covered puzzle blocks, clearly once part of a larger set, which, though well worn, appear to depict animals in various habitats. But, sometime long ago, someone beautifully inked watercolored large black letters onto one side of each, turning them into alphabet blocks! I find those letters absolutely gorgeous (looking as if modeled on a Hills alphabet