SOLD Very Best Early Color Cubes, Set of Eighty One in Original Wood Framed Box (No Lid) sewing sampler illustrator and children’s book writer

illustrator and children’s book writer William Steig

to EMR from MHR 1912

where it has clearly lived a long time

) It is a fragment of a tapestry

and a galloping horse

SOLD Very Best Early Color Cubes, Set of Eighty One in Original Wood Framed Box (No Lid) sewing sampler illustrator and children’s book writerI am not a connoisseur of many things but I am of Color Cubes, produced buy the US Embossing Co. Albany, NY and this set of blocks is PERFECTION. An early set, c. 1930, with that best early blue and mustardy yellow and very painterly white, and these perfectly aged but with really no paint loss at all. This is the largest, most luxurious set they produced, 81 blocks. In original box bottom, with jointed wooden frame and cardboard bottom, but lid long