"This is a Tea Square," Complete and Subtly Annotated Antique Milton Bradley Industrial Drawing Kit, Patent 1889 Baca series A box this size with

A box this size with this level of ornamentation I believe would likely have been used for serving guests

but one of the slightly smaller Nine Men's Morris pieces can easily be used as a substitute

and the whole thing absolutely fantastic

I found one closely related set in the archive of a Dutch toy dealer

"This is a Tea Square," Complete and Subtly Annotated Antique Milton Bradley Industrial Drawing Kit, Patent 1889 Baca series A box this size withThis is an antique, complete Milton Bradley "Springfield Industrial Drawing Kit", patented 1889. You know I love early Milton Bradley, and here a very smartly designed set including two drafting triangles, a t square, and a drawing board. When hung up (from the handy hole at the end of the t square), I think it looks quite a bit like the front of a button down, collared shirt, and, relatedly, immediately evinces wooden Shaker sweater stretchers. (And