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portraying a bit of the action and hung outside the theater as signage of sorts

but this set does have more than its share of cylinders and hexagonal prisms

and perhaps inspiration for some sort of party game

The unpasted (free) end papers at front and back (i

7 1/4" l x 4 1/2" t x 3 1/16" d

Knowles Pump Works- Wonderful Old Folk Art Block Building folk art whimsey portraying a bit of theOn the back of this little building is written "Knowles Steam Pump", pointing to Warren, MA, I believe, where the Knowles Steam Pump factory operated in the last quarter of the 1800s, prior to merging in 1897 to become Blake and Knowles and moving to East Cambridge, MA. And what a marvelous little building it is, made of a solid wooden block clad in perfect old white paint with graphite drawn windows, and enhanced through the addition of pitched roof,