Dennison Handy Box No 64, c. 1930s-40s, Packed beautiful wooden blocks because I can never resist

because I can never resist a nice old set of wooden blocks

Baker Lake

holding heart to her chest

using what looks like a combination of ink and crayon

It feels 100% mid-century Danish to me (like a super painterly version of Inge-Lise Koefoed's pieces for Royal Copenhagen's Tenera line) but even with a magnifier I can't quite read to very faint marks on the underside

Dennison Handy Box No 64, c. 1930s-40s, Packed beautiful wooden blocks because I can never resistThe Dennison Manufacturing Company (1844 1990) which produced this "Handy Box No. 64," c. 1920s 30s I believe, was a Framingham, Massachusetts based paper products manufacturer and international leader in the stationery market. And if this was no 64 in a series of boxed kits, seems to me one would have everything one could every possibly need to complete every task imaginable and keep themselves busy for the rest of their lives if they had the whole