Best Old Black and Creamy White House Blocks With Green Roofs hand-painted wooden plate I really love the roughness

I really love the roughness of this carved ball in cage whimsy

4 15/16 x 7 15/16

The manner if it makes me think likely Northern European

Perhaps my favorite find of the week

Especially nice for the vein in the the stone that runs across one side of the head like a stripe

Best Old Black and Creamy White House Blocks With Green Roofs hand-painted wooden plate I really love the roughnessThese are my very favorite blocks. I've found two groups of them before, of slightly different whites creams each time, and perpetually keep and eye out for them. Thje first ones I had purchased at Brimfield from a dealer with whom I talked about old blocks for a good 20 minutes he, like me, had a lot of knowledge about early blocks, but neither of us knew the maker of these, and he'd spent a good bit of time trying to figure it out. Whatever the