J.A Glaspell's A.H Andrews & Co. 1880s Cube Root Blocks Set erzgebirge house amazing patina

amazing patina

with these great brownish (with a touch of pinkness) swirls plus a star in a band around the top

from every brick of the chimney to every leaf on the bushes and trees to every stripe on the awning and every cross of the lattice

7/16" thick

who wears an apparatus that appears as if it might carry him straight into the ocean

J.A Glaspell's A.H Andrews & Co. 1880s Cube Root Blocks Set erzgebirge house amazing patinaI've only found one other set out there like this, held in the collection of Brandeis University. A. H Andrews & Co, which made it, was founded in 1865, primarily as a furniture company making school and office furniture, but they also produced slates, erasers, maps and charts, drawing instruction books and related materials, including geometric solids and this set of blocks, which I found featured in an 1881 catalogue. The company went bankrupt in