1880s Reading Speller by William Campbell with Excellent Sections on Geometric Shapes and Color math diagrams Purchased this week from a

Purchased this week from a wonderful

I've become pretty enamored of these turned and painted wooden apples--made in Japan for the Western market-- which often housed roulette style horse racing games or miniature wooden tea sets

) Constructed of rigid card with hand-colored transfer printed design beneath the glass top

I love the drama of our hatted man in long coat standing on the precipice

The reverse revealing its angle cut construction

1880s Reading Speller by William Campbell with Excellent Sections on Geometric Shapes and Color math diagrams Purchased this week from aA sweet and much handled old speller by William Campbell, published by Thomas Kelly, NY, 1887. Antique school books win me for many different reasons in this case it was particularly the single color plate showing primary, secondary and tertiary colors so gorgeous! (I would be very tempted to carefully cut that one out and frame it.) But also, near it, toward the back of the book, are several excellent pages of lines, angles and geometrical shapes,