Rare Embossing Co Angle Design Blocks, 1930s cartoon characters and with hand-painted text that

and with hand-painted text that

There is one small tear in her linen dress--on the backside

I've found none for Caspar Merritt

which varies in tone and makes it feels like a painting to me

and dry wood on the rest

Rare Embossing Co Angle Design Blocks, 1930s cartoon characters and with hand-painted text thatI am forever looking at, and for, old sets of blocks of interesting design, but I have never ever seen another of this particular set, produced by The Embossing Co. of Albany, NY, which also produced the much better known and widely distributed Color Cubes. I have found one reference out there to another set similar to these with the same basic box, but for "Curve Design" rather than "Angle Design" blocks, and dated to the mid 1930s. A writer about