Exceptional Froebel Kindergarten Cut Paper Designs Set 3, I-L (Sold Individually) cutout handle Shaped like a book

Shaped like a book

4 7/8" x 3 3/4"

Framed: 7" x 5 11/16" x 11/16"

I'm guessing it likely once served a function rather than being a whimsy of sorts

) or attaching to something else

Exceptional Froebel Kindergarten Cut Paper Designs Set 3, I-L (Sold Individually) cutout handle Shaped like a bookSOLD: I, J, K, L When my dealer friend in Maine, from whom I purchased a pile of these gorgeous paper cuts earlier this year, let me know he had more from the same lot, I hurried up the coast to get them. (They elicit the sort of rush in me that makes "dealer" feel illicit.) These represent exceptional examples of kindergarten inventor Friedrich Froebel's (1782 1852) "Gift 13", paper cutting with these pieces clearly made using Froebel's proscribed