Vintage Naef Wooden Stacking Bocks - Set of Seventeen cutout wooden dog as it's the Kansas State

as it's the Kansas State bird

and I can't resist snatching them up when I find them

The box measures 6 3/4" in diameter and 3 3/4" tall with lid on (2 1/4" without lid)

with its dry wood front punctuated with old fat nails

No way could I resist this little Japanese Hariko (paper mache) tiger

Vintage Naef Wooden Stacking Bocks - Set of Seventeen cutout wooden dog as it's the Kansas StateThese were a happy find the other day at a favorite shop in New Hampshire I've had a couple of rare sets of colored blocks of the same form designed by renowned Swiss carpenter and designer Kurt Naef (19262006) in 1954, but had never seen a set of unpainted wooden ones, though I have since learned that they were produced. No box with these and they are unmarked, but it's quite clear that is what they are, and all signs point to this being a. mid