SOLD Beautiful, Large 19th Century Handmade Wooden Blocks Set in Original Crate turtle sheels I believe these date to

I believe these date to the 19th century and represent a mix of ivory and whale bone

from 1963 to 1965

with some 90 pages completely filled on front and back

seems likely to be missing just a few pieces--or it may be that I just don't know how to fit them together properly

6 1/2" t x 5 5/8 across at handle x 4 5/8"

SOLD Beautiful, Large 19th Century Handmade Wooden Blocks Set in Original Crate turtle sheels I believe these date toYum. I love blocks of many sorts, but my greatest reverence is for very substantial early wooden sets like this the purest incarnations of "building blocks," and with real gravity to them. And this set looks perhaps to have once been part of a museum collection, with a small white rectangle carefully painted on one end of each and every block, and the box too, bearing the number 80. 111. They fill their large original (beautifully finger jointed)