Vintage Naef Wooden Stacking Bocks - Set of Seventeen feathered brush The ring could be removed

The ring could be removed from the backside by snipping the black thread that holds it

with a hand-decorated slide-top box

On the bottom he has written his name in pencil -- which appears

Photos describe it all better than I can

Vintage Naef Wooden Stacking Bocks - Set of Seventeen feathered brush The ring could be removedThese were a happy find the other day at a favorite shop in New Hampshire I've had a couple of rare sets of colored blocks of the same form designed by renowned Swiss carpenter and designer Kurt Naef (19262006) in 1954, but had never seen a set of unpainted wooden ones, though I have since learned that they were produced. No box with these and they are unmarked, but it's quite clear that is what they are, and all signs point to this being a. mid