SOLD Very Best Early Color Cubes, Set of Eighty One in Original Wood Framed Box (No Lid) carved alphabet and for me the flute

and for me the flute seems like the peacemaker of instruments

2 15/16" t x 1 1/4" w x 1 7/8" d

1650--early 1700s

by then the world's largest retailer

And the shape of the ferrule

SOLD Very Best Early Color Cubes, Set of Eighty One in Original Wood Framed Box (No Lid) carved alphabet and for me the fluteI am not a connoisseur of many things but I am of Color Cubes, produced buy the US Embossing Co. Albany, NY and this set of blocks is PERFECTION. An early set, c. 1930, with that best early blue and mustardy yellow and very painterly white, and these perfectly aged but with really no paint loss at all. This is the largest, most luxurious set they produced, 81 blocks. In original box bottom, with jointed wooden frame and cardboard bottom, but lid long