Rare Embossing Co Angle Design Blocks, 1930s folk art tools and all in good working

and all in good working order: hitting either of the chipmunks will knock them back

which I assume dates to the 1940s

With a small hole at top center for threading and hanging

visceral and substantial

maybe with a taxidermy head or two overhead and a giant bear nearby

Rare Embossing Co Angle Design Blocks, 1930s folk art tools and all in good workingI am forever looking at, and for, old sets of blocks of interesting design, but I have never ever seen another of this particular set, produced by The Embossing Co. of Albany, NY, which also produced the much better known and widely distributed Color Cubes. I have found one reference out there to another set similar to these with the same basic box, but for "Curve Design" rather than "Angle Design" blocks, and dated to the mid 1930s. A writer about