Rare Embossing Co Angle Design Blocks, 1930s heating stone box Box measures 5 7/8" l

Box measures 5 7/8" l x 2 1/2" w x 1 1/2" t

Signed at lower left and also on reverse

most likely Caribou I think

but the wood is thick enough to get a good grip on from the sides in order to print

The leather hinge connecting the lid to base on the back side is mostly split but one wouldn't know it when closed

Rare Embossing Co Angle Design Blocks, 1930s heating stone box Box measures 5 7/8" lI 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