Color, Pattern, Alphabet, Images: Excellent, Complete Set of 36 Blocks, Dated 1865 sales manual and so graphic and modern

and so graphic and modern feeling

And with what I take for a faux-autograph at lower left

Or made as part of a maquette for an opera set design

the stone is brighter and more radiant than photos convey

then carefully nailed to little pieces of wood--a brilliant solution I do think

Color, Pattern, Alphabet, Images: Excellent, Complete Set of 36 Blocks, Dated 1865 sales manual and so graphic and modernI've never seen these before, and they're my new favorites each of their six sides as good as the next: two sides like diagonal pattern color cubes; two sides black on red letters and numbers; and two sides black on white graphics, images (mostly animals) on one and shapes (stars, diamonds, etc) on the other. Among the last, four blocks together form a maker's mark a bit hard to read but including the name "James Harold" (which has led me nowhere) and