17" (43 cm.) x 12". 4" and 5" dolls. Preserved in its original cardboard box on a wooden framed platform is a French schoolroom with teacher's podium and desk, two blackboards, and four double desks and benches each with paper instructional booklets. Folding walls are designed to fit into wooden floor slats when the room is being played with, and are decorated with an outside six-pane window, maps of France and Asia, arithmetic tables, and a wall clock signed Paris. Attending the school is 5" all bisque teacher with swivel head, glass eyes, peg-jointed arms and legs, blonde mohair wig and silk dress, along with all-bisque students with swivel heads, painted features, blonde mohair wigs, original cotton dresses, peg-jointed limbs. French, circa 1890, an accompanying letter, dated 1934, bequeaths the toy to "ma cher Suzanne" describing the schoolroom as a "toy from my long-ago childhood". Superb unplayed with condition, with provenance, a luxury model of the popular "playing school" as indicated by deluxe quality of dolls.