A beautiful and also somewhat mysterious feeling thing, or group of things, which I just needed to bring home and be around for a bit. The wood is here is a hard wood, with a very smooth surface (if I were better at identifying woods I would!) Feels much more like a modernist sculpture than something made for a child, and with a tension about how the two positive forms relate to the cutouts in the rectangular block--the end grain patterns tell us they were cut separately, with the grain running in the opposite direction from the cutouts in the block. Photos give a fairly good sense, but there is great pleasure in the tactility of this too.
Block with cutouts: 8 3/4" x 3 7/8". Wooden forms: 4 7/8" t and 4 1/2" tall. Very good condition, with a few minor hairlines on the two forms terminating in square and triangle, and one side of the square-ended on one shows a couple of small surface losses as pictured. C Mid 20th century I presume, though perhaps a bit earlier.
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