Beautiful Old Solid Wood Architectural Building Blocks Set carvings Jones viewed his carvings as

Jones viewed his carvings as people and believed that if he carved a figure of a man

And what a lot of service he has given over many years--punctured with stick pins on all sides and coming apart at a few of his seams

while she was  teaching at the Harlem Art Center and working at the New York branch of the WPA graphics division

and then periodically making a big event of pulling it out to get everything squared away

is structurally sound and completely usable 4 7/8" tall x 3 7/8" d

Beautiful Old Solid Wood Architectural Building Blocks Set carvings Jones viewed his carvings asI'm a sucker for nice old wooden blocks, and these are really lovely. Though without its slide top lid, I think the box is original to them, and think they likely date to the first quarter of the 20th century, though could be even a bit older than that. There are probably a handful of them missing, but almost a full box still, and I must say that in laying them out to photograph them, I was really tempted to spend a few hours playing. Classic, modular