Scarce 1897 Hood's Spelling School Game, Complete, with Extensive Rules Booklet-- and Sarsaparilla Advertising! modernist design 5 1/2" longest x 4"

5 1/2" longest x 4" wide measured on the square

Old repaired (glue) split to lid of box

4 9/16" x 3 9/16"

14 3/4" tall x 3 1/8" wide with arms down

The papier mache head is hand-painted

Scarce 1897 Hood's Spelling School Game, Complete, with Extensive Rules Booklet-- and Sarsaparilla Advertising! modernist design 5 1/2" longest x 4"This is a scarce one like Anagrams, but with bright yellow letters, the backs of them printed with Hood's Sarsaparilla, a root beer like drink promoted as a health tonic with far ranging benefits. Those benefits are details in the printed booklet, which, far more usefully, includes many pages of details for different and increasingly sophisticated games to be played with these letters and which, I do believe, make a compelling argument for them as