Goldsmith's Natural History Abridged, 1846, Much Annotated! hand-painted face Spheres formed by blocks are

Spheres formed by blocks are 2 1/2" in diameter

The kit consists of a bottle of gold paint (mostly empty and no longer usable)

but when the time comes

but would imagine that band is silver

Goldsmith's Natural History Abridged, 1846, Much Annotated! hand-painted face Spheres formed by blocks areThis book has be through A LOT, with names of multiple users written on different pages, a few of which have come loose, and most of which remind us it is nearly 200 years old! But what a thing, its 427 pages not just filled with engravings of animals of all sorts, but also with child drawn pencil outlines of a handful of them and some hand written text, too, including the note early telling us to visit page 312, where we are told not once but twice