Very Scarce c. 1870s-80s E.U. Kinsey Building Blocks Set with Stained Glass Window Frames go fish and also a 19th century

and also a 19th century tradition of carving and painting vertebrae to resemble John Wesley (1703-1791)

and which from what I understand originated in China but became very popular as a parlor game in Victorian England

I love how wispy and delicate it looks here

and I believe was painted on bone

Very Scarce c. 1870s-80s E.U. Kinsey Building Blocks Set with Stained Glass Window Frames go fish and also a 19th centuryI can't find any reference for this blocks set out there anywhere, but I did find one record of a different set of E. U. Kinsey's Toy Building Blocks in the collection of the Henry Ford Museum, dated 1875 1885, which is I believe about when these were produced. What I especially love here are the freestanding window frames with jewel colored stained glass windows, nice just lined up on their own, and there's a hinged door, too. And the rectangular and