C. 1830s Handmade, Hand-colored Oversized Cards (Set of 24) Adapted from D.W. Kellogg's Alphabet of Different Nations carved inuit figure Iconic and I think quite

Iconic and I think quite awesome

I love how this tiny carved woman stands in what is almost the classical Venus Pudica position

I don't buy a lot of old photographs

5/8" thick

I've used little brass ducks to hold down the corners of the pages for photographing

C. 1830s Handmade, Hand-colored Oversized Cards (Set of 24) Adapted from D.W. Kellogg's Alphabet of Different Nations carved inuit figure Iconic and I think quiteI think these are absolutely fantastic, purchased in Maine at an antiques show from from a Virginia based dealer with very fine things, and which I absolutely could not leave behind. And after much searching, I found their source on the website of the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale: they are from Alphabet of Different Nations: For Teaching Children to Read, published by D. W. Kellogg & Co, Hartford, sometime between 1830 and 1842,