Rare Embossing Co Angle Design Blocks, 1930s folk art tools visceral and substantial

visceral and substantial

this is a piece that I think only  becomes richer and more affecting the more time one spends with it

With a small hole at top center for threading and hanging

which I assume dates to the 1940s

via a handy key

Rare Embossing Co Angle Design Blocks, 1930s folk art tools visceral and substantialI am forever looking at, and for, old sets of blocks of interesting design, but I have never ever seen another of this particular set, produced by The Embossing Co. of Albany, NY, which also produced the much better known and widely distributed Color Cubes. I have found one reference out there to another set similar to these with the same basic box, but for "Curve Design" rather than "Angle Design" blocks, and dated to the mid 1930s. A writer about