C. 1830s Handmade, Hand-colored Oversized Cards (Set of 24) Adapted from D.W. Kellogg's Alphabet of Different Nations carved inuit figure I love how this tiny

I love how this tiny carved woman stands in what is almost the classical Venus Pudica position

including most immediately for testing one's own visual memory (and capacity to focus

In far from perfect condition (I would never have gotten my hands on it otherwise

which is noticeable

There is also a mend to the center of the right strut

C. 1830s Handmade, Hand-colored Oversized Cards (Set of 24) Adapted from D.W. Kellogg's Alphabet of Different Nations carved inuit figure I love how this tinyI think these are absolutely fantastic, purchased in Maine at an antiques show from from a Virginia based dealer with very fine things, and which I absolutely could not leave behind. And after much searching, I found their source on the website of the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale: they are from Alphabet of Different Nations: For Teaching Children to Read, published by D. W. Kellogg & Co, Hartford, sometime between 1830 and 1842,