Perfectly Designed and Creatively Inspiring Ideal Fractional Tablets Set, Complete vintage pine needle basket perhaps a bit like a

perhaps a bit like a crucifix for the believer in small wonders

and the juxtaposition of the two

9 7/8" x 8" x 3/16"

This snake looks almost as if it is made of wood

Perfectly Designed and Creatively Inspiring Ideal Fractional Tablets Set, Complete vintage pine needle basket perhaps a bit like aI'm always excited to find beautifully designed old creative learning materials, and am especially enamored with this set of "Fraction Learning Tablets" produced by the Ideal School Supply Co. of Chicago, another set of which I've never seen. Not designed by Frederick Froebel, but completely aligned with his blocks sets here with paper "tablets" divided into halves, thirds, quarters, etc., and purple cardboard shapes of corresponding, sequentially