SOLD Very Best Early Color Cubes, Set of Eighty One in Original Wood Framed Box (No Lid) carved alphabet 2 15/16" t x 1

2 15/16" t x 1 1/4" w x 1 7/8" d

1650--early 1700s

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

which appears to have some good age to it (late 19th c

SOLD Very Best Early Color Cubes, Set of Eighty One in Original Wood Framed Box (No Lid) carved alphabet 2 15/16" t x 1I 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