Gorgeous Old Carved Wooden Printing Letters (23) rebus painting on paper The second to last photograph

The second to last photograph of a pile of blocks shows some more of the other plain ones--again

or to keep your Scrabble partner from taking forever

Just shy of 20" long

Sight" 7 1/4" x 6 3/4"

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Gorgeous Old Carved Wooden Printing Letters (23) rebus painting on paper The second to last photographI've never come across fully hand carved old printing letters like this before, and am just completely in love with them as objects, and all the more so for the mix of old black and white paint on the face of some of them, and dry wood on the rest. Each is carved from one piece of wood, with tapering handles of varying lengths, which would make them a joy to print with should one wish to put them to work, though I'm quite content just to look at them.