As Found, Great Old Lot of Color Cubes in Terrific Handmade Tray, with Two Homemade Plugs antique copper sulky chasing a butterfly

chasing a butterfly

8" x 5 1/4" x 1 11/16" and in very good condition with just a minor bit of paint loss at the base of the "spine

and I'd guess 1940s or so

The plate is marked (incised) MH on the reverse

even before I realized she was a topsy turvy doll

As Found, Great Old Lot of Color Cubes in Terrific Handmade Tray, with Two Homemade Plugs antique copper sulky chasing a butterflyYou know that color cubes are among my favorite things ever and every time I have a set, especially a big one like this, I spend a while playing around with them. (Good for the eye and the brain, both.) I also love how every set is different product of many years of play (and rare to find a set that was not much played with, attesting to the enduring appeal of these) and also the properties of the paint itself, the qualities of which indicate their