Set of 21 Large Handmade, Hand-colored Paper Litho on Wood Alphabet Blocks, c. Mid 19th Century american set design nice weight watermarked laid paper

nice weight watermarked laid paper

but fine as is

with wonderful carved details

and clearly a much used one

14 leaves filled densely on both sides of page

Set of 21 Large Handmade, Hand-colored Paper Litho on Wood Alphabet Blocks, c. Mid 19th Century american set design nice weight watermarked laid paperAs I too often am sorry to say, photos do no justice at all to these blocks, which have an old light varnish finish over top, so are hard to shoot details give a somewhat better sense, and there is a whole lot of charm in the details here! Terrific imagery, terrific words, with the face of each handmade block a hand colored print, I think likely paper cut from an early children's picture alphabet book then mounted to the hand cut wooden blocks. (I can