Early Milton Bradley Froebel Kindergarten Blocks - Gift 5 Box, 27 Square Blocks game of rainbow The back side is painted

The back side is painted green

but good condition overall and not as fragile as they appear

I'd guess the painting--titled "The Story"--portrays Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden

the other top edge

wading into the brush of course

Early Milton Bradley Froebel Kindergarten Blocks - Gift 5 Box, 27 Square Blocks game of rainbow The back side is paintedI've been reading up on Froebel's invention of kindergarten of late and getting all of Froebel's "Gifts" straight; as I've found is sometimes the case, this is actually 27 undivided cube blocks combined in a Gift No. 5 box, which would originally have housed a combination of undivided cubes and others divided in halves or quarters.(While Gift 3 would have consisted of 8 solid cubes.) So, a hybrid, surely product of a kindergarten with many sets of