Big, Beautiful Old Wooden Block Set break contest And the folky treatment of

And the folky treatment of those little feet gripping the branch of the tree I find extremely satisfying

Plain yellow on the back

and the wonderfully branching bare tree an earthy brown

8 5/8" in diameter x 1 3/4" tall

and an unusual one for the old black and mellow gold paint on it

Big, Beautiful Old Wooden Block Set break contest And the folky treatment ofAs 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