Striking Early, Large, Hand-Carved Printing Block with Heart, Beds, Flowers prairie wagon toy with little dings here and

with little dings here and there

it is super smooth and almost seems petrified

upper left

A couple of pages show staining as pictured but overall pretty good condition and the construction type paper on which they were drawn is not especially brittle

primarily dating to the mid- to late- 19th century

Striking Early, Large, Hand-Carved Printing Block with Heart, Beds, Flowers prairie wagon toy with little dings here andI've seen some early carved print blocks, but I don't think ever one as large as this, or one I loved nearly as much! My guess is that it was used to print directly on the wall in a home though perhaps to make wall paper whatever the case it would have required some strength and determination to use, as it's fairly cumbersome and heavy. The heart at top framed with a ring of posts just kills me (which together with the overall shape makes this feel