Very Scarce C. 1860s German Architectural Building Blocks with Hand-colored Plates folk art cat face I'm partial to the fruit

I'm partial to the fruit and vegetable drawings

leg raised and arms extended for balance but also a bit like flapping wings

a smear to the paint on the stool at right (I'd guess original to it)

teeming with warmth and charm

Very Scarce C. 1860s German Architectural Building Blocks with Hand-colored Plates folk art cat face I'm partial to the fruitOh how I love my blocks. And I get especially excited when I find an early and rare boxed set of wooden ones like this, complete with hand colored lithographs meant to inspire construction.(Probably there were once several more, but two remain, laid flat inside.) This is a German "Gothic Architecture" set, 1850 60, and quite a rare one; I found one closely related set in the archive of a Dutch toy dealer, but not an exact match. On the underside of