AN EARLY VICTORIAN BONE SPELLING ALPHABET C.1840 in a mahogany case with a sliding cover, with a rectangular plaque, inscribed 'Spelling Alphabet', the interior with twenty-seven divisions containing one hundred and forty-nine bone letters, the majority double sided, one or two associated and some later paper facsimilies (not included in the total) 15.5 x 26cm Provenance 'A Lifetime of Collecting' - The Property of a Gentleman.