Bradley’s Kindergarten Material, No. 5, Fifth Gift

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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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  Bradley's Kindergarten Material, No. 6, Sixth Gift

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  One boxed set of wooden blocks manufactured by the Milton Bradley Company, Springfield, Massachusetts, comprised of 17 wide rectangles, 12 square blocks, 6 thin rectangles. Some of the wood blocks appear to be replacements for lost blocks, others seem to have been used for a painting project. One block has blue paint or dye on one side, another black.

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  Bradley's Kindergarten Material, No. 3, Third Gift

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  One set of wooden blocks entitled Bradley's Kindergarten Material, No. 3, Third Gift, manufactured by the Milton Bradley Company, Springfield, Massachusetts, ca. 1900. The set is comprised of 8 rectangular blocks, each measuring 2" x 1" x 1/2" (5 cm x 2.5cm x 1.3cm). The blocks are housed within a wooden box with a sliding lid; a paper label bearing the title and manufacturer's information is mounted to the front side.

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  Hammett’s Kindergarten Material - No. 475

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  One boxed set of wooden pegs entitled Hammett's Kindergarten Material - No. 475, manufactured by the J. L. Hammett Co., Newark, New Jersey and Cambridge, Mass, ca. 1885. The subtitle reads: "1000 round sticks, Six colors for Primary Peg Board." The set consists of approximately 200 pegs--red, yellow, blue, orange, green and purple--of the original 1000. The pegs are housed within a paperboard box (red) with a gray paper label mounted to the top lid. The pegs are intended for use with peg boards, such as Mrs. B. Putnam's Busy Work Tiles, No. 1 (Box 80, Set 2).

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  Set of six wooden forms manufacturer unknown, circa 1880

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  One set of six wooden forms, untitled, manufacturer unknown, ca. 1880. The set is comprised of a rectangular cube (?), a sphere, a square cube, a ring, an open triangle, and a cone. Each of the forms has either a wooden peg or a peg hole; presumably these forms were fit into a base or each other. All of the forms are painted white. The largest item is the rectangle; it is 8 inches (20.3 cm.) in height and 3 7/8 inches (9.8 cm.) in width; the smallest form is the sphere, which is approximately 3 3/4 inches (9.5 cm.) in diameter. This set may accompany the set in Box 78. Title supplied by cataloger.

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  Parquetry Blocks

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  One set of wooden parquetry tiles entitled Parquetry Blocks, manufactured by Milton Bradley & Co., of Springfield, Massachusetts, ca. 1920. The set is comprised of 150 small wooden, colored blocks in a variety of shapes and a sheet of printed instructions. The sheet is illustrated with sample designs, and is labeled "4352 Parquetry Blocks." It reads, in part: "These interesting tablets are made of wood and colored in the six colors. They are also of assorted forms, the diamond and half square." The six colors of the wood tiles are red, yellow, blue, orange, green and purple. The set is housed within a paperboard box that has a colored label mounted to the top lid. Mounted to the underside of the bottom lid is a distributor's label which reads: "G.J. Esselen, Successor to Mrs. J.C. White, 19 Bromfield St., Boston, Mass." On one end of the top lid is pasted a handwritten label "Parquetry."

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