Milton Bradley Froebel Kindergarten Materials Catalog, 1896 shoe shaped a perfect desk object with

a perfect desk object with a surprise

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

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

I just can't resist things like this that feel so invested with love and effort--right down to perching a little brown bee (I think it is) on the petals of the big green flower

and with really great

Milton Bradley Froebel Kindergarten Materials Catalog, 1896 shoe shaped a perfect desk object withThis 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