Luxuriously Large Lot of Antique Bone Letters in Original Box round flat basket 6" long (7 1/2" with

6" long (7 1/2" with handle)

with the LAO who initialed it clearly practicing her needlepoint skills across three vertical spans of what I read as towers of flowers

of course it the legacy of its onetime owner Charles Wilet that makes me love it

) really sold me on this painting

Luxuriously Large Lot of Antique Bone Letters in Original Box round flat basket 6" long (7 1/2" withYum. I had one set of 19th c. bone letters months ago and have been looking for more since so when I spotted this box on offer from a British seller, filled with 180+ of them, I jumped on it. For me, all of these beautiful letters together feels like total luxury, and also total possibility the potential of every work that exists just sitting there in physical form, waiting to be spelled. These were used to teaching spelling in the 19th c., and I have