Rare Mid 19th Century "Infant's Alphabet" With Two Handmade Additions to Make Complete pins and a couple of old

and a couple of old well repaired splits in the lid

in addition to darker green transfer

but this is the first set of Chinese spellicans I have had

and I'd bet that was the case with this one

Rare Mid 19th Century "Infant's Alphabet" With Two Handmade Additions to Make Complete pins and a couple of oldTo my eye a complete charming thing, and I've never seen another set like this somewhat akin to antique carved bone alphabets, meant to teach spelling, but in this case a paper alphabet with hand colored pictures to boot. The label on the lid of the turned wooden box reads "Infant's Alphabet", with the image of a girl holding doll at center. Inside, 28 rounds cut of heavy paper card, with letters of the alphabet on one side and hand colored engraved