Rare Embossing Co Angle Design Blocks, 1930s heating stone box When I found this little

When I found this little clay fertility doll I had no idea quite what she was or where she came from

12” l x 6 3/4” w x 4” t and in good

Signed at lower left and also on reverse

Box measures 5 7/8" l x 2 1/2" w x 1 1/2" t

One sees these old verre eglomisé--or reverse painted glass--panels around from time to time

Rare Embossing Co Angle Design Blocks, 1930s heating stone box When I found this littleI am forever looking at, and for, old sets of blocks of interesting design, but I have never ever seen another of this particular set, produced by The Embossing Co. of Albany, NY, which also produced the much better known and widely distributed Color Cubes. I have found one reference out there to another set similar to these with the same basic box, but for "Curve Design" rather than "Angle Design" blocks, and dated to the mid 1930s. A writer about