Professor Nast's Sketching Rack for Young Artists

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  Pretty Pets Paint Box

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  One boxed set of watercolor paints entitled Pretty Pets Paint Box, manufacturer unknown, ca. 1895. The set is comprised of 28 cakes of watercolor paint, two small porcelain dishes, one paintbrush, a piece of glass, and a 5-inch paper ruler. The cakes of paint are embossed with an artist's palette design, and are contained within wooden dividers in a wooden box (no lid). This box is housed within a paperboard box (which does have a lid). Mounted onto the paperboard lid is a chromolithograph image of three girls, each painting a toy elephant. "2.00" (price) is written in ms., in pencil, in the upper right-hand corner of the image on the lid.

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  A.W. Faber's Polygrade Lead Pencils

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  One pencil box for A.W. Faber's Polygrade Lead Pencils, ca. 1850. The box contains 5 slots for 5 different grades of pencils; the slots are labeled, and there is a hardness guide printed on a paper label affixed to the underside of the lid. The guide is printed in both French and English. The entire contents of the lid read: "Prize-Medals, London 1851 New York 1853 paris 1855 etc., A.W. Faber's Polygrade-Lead-Pencils Manufacion y established 1761." The label is decorated and embossed, in gold, into the lid. The box is empty.

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  For A Good Child

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  One boxed set of watercolor paints entitled For A Good Child, manufacturer unknown, ca. 1925? The set is comprised of 21 small, rectangular embossed cakes of watercolor paint, a small, round porcelain dish, and a fragment of a quill brush. The set is housed within a wooden box with a sliding lid. The set's title is printed on a paper label that is affixed to the bottom of the box, just above the first row of paints. An image printed on paper is affixed to the lid; the image is of two children playing, and is signed "Dagood"(?). Each of the cakes of paint is embossed with an image of a swan. The image on the lid is mounted upside down. Laid into the box is one folded sheet of brown blotting paper.

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  Bradley’s Kindergarten Material, No. 4, Fourth Gift

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  One set of wood blocks entitled Bradley's Kindergarten Material, No. 4, Fourth Gift, manufactured by Milton Bradley & Co., Springfield, Massachusetts, ca. 1900. The set is comprised of 8 wooden 1-inch cube blocks, housed inside a wooden box with a sliding lid. A paper label is mounted to the front side of the box; the label bears the title and manufacturer's name. The cubes were used as models for drawing, and were also used in counting and auditory exercises.

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  Boxed painting set, circa 1915

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  One boxed painting set, ca. 1915. This set is contained within a light wooden box and is comprised of a wooden tray which holds (via red elastic bands) 10 small cakes of watercolor paint, two porcelain mixing dishes, two paintbrushes, a 5-inch wooden ruler, and two wooden sticks. Tucked into the top lid and below a cardstock divider in the bottom half are 8 sheets containing original artwork. An additional sheet with sample images for copying is included and tucked into the top lid. The top lid is attached to the box with a red cloth ribbon and decorated with a chromolithograph image, in the shape of an artist's palette, of a winter scene. A small metal lock is affixed to both halves of the box. No manufacturer is listed; no date is given. Title supplied by cataloger.

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  Oliver and Boyd's Object-Lesson Cards

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  One originally boxed set of 20 instructional cards. A paper label, mounted to the underside of the lid, reads: "Oliver and Boyd's Object-Lesson Cards on the Vegetable, Animal and Mineral Kingdoms ... Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd. London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent and Co., Limited." The cards number 1-14 (number 8 is missing) and chiefly include animal and mineral subjects. Each card describes a raw material's source, and traces its manufacturing process to the finished product or products, with a woodblock engraving of the subject. Several pieces of realia are mounted near the image, and a listing of related trades and uses of the item is below that. Note: Cards have been removed from original wooden box and rehoused.

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