SOLD Very Best Early Color Cubes, Set of Eighty One in Original Wood Framed Box (No Lid) carved alphabet Sight" 19 1/2" x 13

Sight" 19 1/2" x 13 1/4"

by then the world's largest retailer

1650--early 1700s

and likely as a drinking cup too

Something about a nesting set of incrementally sized things fitting neatly together gets me every time--so formally satisfying

SOLD Very Best Early Color Cubes, Set of Eighty One in Original Wood Framed Box (No Lid) carved alphabet Sight" 19 1/2" x 13I am not a connoisseur of many things but I am of Color Cubes, produced buy the US Embossing Co. Albany, NY and this set of blocks is PERFECTION. An early set, c. 1930, with that best early blue and mustardy yellow and very painterly white, and these perfectly aged but with really no paint loss at all. This is the largest, most luxurious set they produced, 81 blocks. In original box bottom, with jointed wooden frame and cardboard bottom, but lid long