Vintage Holgate Primary Color Nesting Cubes with Graduated Rattles tabletop wooden house\ And then this wonderful long

And then this wonderful long and flowy brown linen skirt

I see a green snake with bared teeth and fantastically long tongue

so it is impossible to know if it was signed on the back

I'm not quite totally sure the purpose of this one

earlyish 20th century I believe

Vintage Holgate Primary Color Nesting Cubes with Graduated Rattles tabletop wooden house\ And then this wonderful longOld Holgate nesting stacking boxes are among the things I stalk, though I've only ever scored one set, and I think whoever out there has some is never letting them go. There are a few different sizes and varieties that were made, all highly covetable, but I have never seen another set like this: inside the walls of each of the boxes are what I'd guess are tiny metal balls, which make a rattle, with the pitch graduated from highest for the smallest