The Embossing Company Color Cubes - 25 Block Set, No. 12 animal on wheels a portrait of the nature

a portrait of the nature of life itself

the strong horizontal the body in contrast with vertical of the head

lamp caskets etc

6 5/8" in diameter and 2 5/8" tall

but perhaps also to elongated two-toned green form that centers the abstract composition

The Embossing Company Color Cubes - 25 Block Set, No. 12 animal on wheels a portrait of the natureI can never keep old sets of Color Cubes in the shop for long, so I scoop them up whenever I find them and part of the beauty of these is that the more one has, the more design possibilities there are! This is an early set, 1930s or I believe, with 25 cubes, made by The Embossing Company in Albany New York. There is little chipping, almost exclusively to the blue paint (documented in one photo) but very little paint loss around the edges and overall