Vintage Naef Wooden Stacking Bocks - Set of Seventeen cutout wooden dog with its dry wood front

with its dry wood front punctuated with old fat nails

and I can't resist snatching them up when I find them

8 1/8" x 6 1/8" when closed (folded into a booklet)

filled with drawings of people and houses and animals and ships and all sorts of other little things

No way could I resist this little Japanese Hariko (paper mache) tiger

Vintage Naef Wooden Stacking Bocks - Set of Seventeen cutout wooden dog with its dry wood frontThese were a happy find the other day at a favorite shop in New Hampshire I've had a couple of rare sets of colored blocks of the same form designed by renowned Swiss carpenter and designer Kurt Naef (19262006) in 1954, but had never seen a set of unpainted wooden ones, though I have since learned that they were produced. No box with these and they are unmarked, but it's quite clear that is what they are, and all signs point to this being a. mid