Big, Beautiful Old Wooden Block Set round painting A nice old carved ball

A nice old carved ball in cage whimsy with carved loop for hanging or just to  dangle

13" t x 9 1/8" w x 1 5/8" d

all but one of the original nails on the body of the box are in place

speaking to the ever evolving cityscape

Big, Beautiful Old Wooden Block Set round painting A nice old carved ballAs 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