Child Painted Santa Watercolor Drawing in Chip Carved Tramp Frame antique painting Froebel Gifts 2 through 6

Froebel Gifts 2 through 6 (aka "the Building Gifts") are wood blocks in various shapes and quantities

I'm not sure the maker

which I think might indicate that they were very early creations of the Kimble Class Co

German I believe

especially down the front for marking the bodice and all around the base for marking the hemlines

Child Painted Santa Watercolor Drawing in Chip Carved Tramp Frame antique painting Froebel Gifts 2 through 6I love this watercolor, and the tramp frame, and think they make a happy marriage. (Forgive the glare in photos.) Santa (who happily looks more like dad as Santa than "Santa") was executed on orange construction paper mounted to green, dated Dec. 13 and signed AW at the bottom left. Fabulous beard, fabulous boots, fabulous decorated tree (which Santa appears to be hailing), and this curiously sparse arrangement of objects underneath the tree a tiny