Curious 1879 New York Carving with Many Initials (Commemorating the Life of Lunsford Lane?) found obect and just fell in love

and just fell in love with its immediacy

giving the whole thing a sense of mystery

and I really can't imagine a simpler or more satisfying approach to fraction learning than these old handmade blocks

mottled sky blue on the exterior and aqua on the interior--a striking combination

Curious 1879 New York Carving with Many Initials (Commemorating the Life of Lunsford Lane?) found obect and just fell in loveA very curious one, looking a bit like a pipe and a bit like a whistle and a bit like a shoe too. The NC LANE carved into one side of it made me do a little searching for the name, and makes me wonder if rather than the initials of a first and middle name, the NC might instead stand for North Carolina, where there were some notables Lanes. Specifically, there was Lunsford Lane (1803 1879), his year of death matching the date carved into this), an