Beautiful Early Set of 81 Color Cubes in Original Box with Custom Lid resist painted vase A little research lead me

A little research lead me to discover that this drawing must have been made after a woodcut first published as a plate in Thomas Hood's Whims and Oddities: in prose and verse

and a great one

just teeming with the love and care of many many hard-trying hours invested in it

each time feeling an immediate spark from them before I consciously realize who did them

Beautiful Early Set of 81 Color Cubes in Original Box with Custom Lid resist painted vase A little research lead meAs I always say, I will never tire of these; each time I find a beautiful old box of them I fall in love all over again. This is a luxuriously large early set, made by the Embossing Co. (Albany, NY), 81 blocks in their original wooden box bottom, and with a custom made wood and cardboard lid to boot. (The original cardboard lid is still here too, split in half but handy for all of the suggestion designs the underside provides.) With the most beautiful