Color, Pattern, Alphabet, Images: Excellent, Complete Set of 36 Blocks, Dated 1865 cream and gold combining the two different lettering

combining the two different lettering styles

just so (itself a good exercise in problem solving

with two old hand-forged steel strikers and a piece of flint that was definitely used for sparking them housed in a vintage wooden La Tropical Jamaican cigar box

a wax casting method that has been used in India for over 4

and I believe this pair are probably a hundred years old at least

Color, Pattern, Alphabet, Images: Excellent, Complete Set of 36 Blocks, Dated 1865 cream and gold combining the two different letteringI've never seen these before, and they're my new favorites each of their six sides as good as the next: two sides like diagonal pattern color cubes; two sides black on red letters and numbers; and two sides black on white graphics, images (mostly animals) on one and shapes (stars, diamonds, etc) on the other. Among the last, four blocks together form a maker's mark a bit hard to read but including the name "James Harold" (which has led me nowhere) and