Mrs. Robertson's Sweet Old Set of Painted Wooden Pattern Blocks in Original Jointed Box (with One Substitute) display stand but am not sure where

but am not sure where it came from or exactly how it was intended to be used

It immediately makes me think of early 19th c

I found these two together

A sweet old thing

hand-painted Chinese export tea caddy struck me as so fine and so lovely that I could not resist

Mrs. Robertson's Sweet Old Set of Painted Wooden Pattern Blocks in Original Jointed Box (with One Substitute) display stand but am not sure whereI feel it is my duty to bring home every good and special old set of blocks I come across, especially those that are singular. These are smaller in scale than US Embossing Co. color cubes, but follow the same design, with red, white, blue and yellow solid colored sides, and then two sides of diagonal two color combinations. One block here is a substitute, colored red (looks like crayon) on all four sides; I always like finding these sorts of