Very Scarce C. 1860s German Architectural Building Blocks with Hand-colored Plates folk art cat face 3" w x 2 5/8"

3" w x 2 5/8" t

along with hand-written notes detailing dimensions and prices

I'm partial to the fruit and vegetable drawings

each having lived quite a life

a smear to the paint on the stool at right (I'd guess original to it)

Very Scarce C. 1860s German Architectural Building Blocks with Hand-colored Plates folk art cat face 3" w x 2 5/8"Oh how I love my blocks. And I get especially excited when I find an early and rare boxed set of wooden ones like this, complete with hand colored lithographs meant to inspire construction.(Probably there were once several more, but two remain, laid flat inside.) This is a German "Gothic Architecture" set, 1850 60, and quite a rare one; I found one closely related set in the archive of a Dutch toy dealer, but not an exact match. On the underside of