Beautiful Old Solid Wood Architectural Building Blocks Set carvings This is a 1940 copy

This is a 1940 copy (the second photo shows another uncovered copy listed separately) and features some pretty great photographs and diagrams

A few scuffs and scrapes here and there

at lower right

And what a lot of service he has given over many years--punctured with stick pins on all sides and coming apart at a few of his seams

I just love those clasped hands at their waists

Beautiful Old Solid Wood Architectural Building Blocks Set carvings This is a 1940 copyI'm a sucker for nice old wooden blocks, and these are really lovely. Though without its slide top lid, I think the box is original to them, and think they likely date to the first quarter of the 20th century, though could be even a bit older than that. There are probably a handful of them missing, but almost a full box still, and I must say that in laying them out to photograph them, I was really tempted to spend a few hours playing. Classic, modular