Excellent Antique Modernist (Very Froebel-esque) Handmade Wooden Boxed Cube Puzzle folk art construction though its scale is exactly

though its scale is exactly right

I was sold on these blocks before I even opened the box: first for the great lithographed graphics on the lid

With lovely ash splint curls and woven sweet grass handle on the lid

feeling as if transcending time and place

and I love how the "berries" at either end are cut in half

Excellent Antique Modernist (Very Froebel-esque) Handmade Wooden Boxed Cube Puzzle folk art construction though its scale is exactlyI've found that the more times I shop Brimfield, the more I've become inclined to almost exclusively purchase little things that will easily fit in my bag (I seem to have gotten quite lazy about heavy schlepping) and particularly small things delivering unexpected delights that are easily overlooked by others who are moving faster across the fields. Like this handmade boxed puzzle cube which evinces both Froebel's kindergarten "Gifts" of boxed blocks