Big, Beautiful Old Wooden Block Set break contest Plain yellow on the back

Plain yellow on the back

and the wonderfully branching bare tree an earthy brown

early-ish 20th c I would guess

now with a very dark dry patina on the back where exposed

Big, Beautiful Old Wooden Block Set break contest Plain yellow on the backAs is surely clear by now, I love old blocks sets of all sorts, but there is something uniquely satisfying about large sets of unpainted wooden ones like this elegant and elemental and like the pure embodiment of creative possibility. And it is rare that I come across a set with such a complete scope of sizes as this a modular range of rectangles and squares, plus round columns and half spheres and very pointy cones, too. Beautiful. I don't have