Very Much Loved Antique Set of Nesting and Stacking Cubes hindu though looks to me as

though looks to me as if it in ends with a sense of being unrequited: "cruel love chains the mind"

mounted to backing paper

It looks to my eye (with magnifier) like it was stencil painted then varnished over

and this is most definitely one of those

which would allow one to rest a ruler against it to draw a straight line in the opposite direction

Very Much Loved Antique Set of Nesting and Stacking Cubes hindu though looks to me asI'm always happy to find an an old set of these, and this is both a very old and a very loved set, handmade of pine, with finger jointed corners, found in Adams County, PA. As with old blocks, for me the wear on old sets of nesting boxes like this is very much the thing, here the paint almost entirely worn off the facing edges, nails added to reinforce the corners of the smallest, and a replacement bottom added to the largest. Plenty of soft wear to