Rare Embossing Co Angle Design Blocks, 1930s folk art tools perhaps especially the little woman

perhaps especially the little woman behind the desk

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

" more than twice as long as the others and which she attributes to Cecil Frances Alexander at the end

but I can't find another anywhere with this one)

and all in good working order: hitting either of the chipmunks will knock them back

Rare Embossing Co Angle Design Blocks, 1930s folk art tools perhaps especially the little womanI 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