Exceptional Froebel Kindergarten Cut Paper Designs Set 3, I-L (Sold Individually) handmade in Norway and hand-painting the eyelashes on

and hand-painting the eyelashes on that bright-eyed clothespin face

I’d guess it dates from second half of the 19th century

Box is in very rough shape and not much use for storing them (making me happy to know they were well used) but why stash them away anyway

and some staining/roughness to the interior bottom

and his athletes

Exceptional Froebel Kindergarten Cut Paper Designs Set 3, I-L (Sold Individually) handmade in Norway and hand-painting the eyelashes onSOLD: 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