Beautiful Early Set of 81 Color Cubes in Original Box with Custom Lid resist painted vase sold in the gold painted

sold in the gold painted frame found it in

I have done a bit of reading on the subject of "ectoplasmic" spirit photography --ectoplasm being a substance or spiritual energy "exteriorized" by physical mediums

A little research lead me to discover that this drawing must have been made after a woodcut first published as a plate in Thomas Hood's Whims and Oddities: in prose and verse

I know from the person I bought this from that they purchased it at a motorcycle swap meet in Iowa

just teeming with the love and care of many many hard-trying hours invested in it

Beautiful Early Set of 81 Color Cubes in Original Box with Custom Lid resist painted vase sold in the gold paintedAs I always say, I will never tire of these; each time I find a beautiful old box of them I fall in love all over again. This is a luxuriously large early set, made by the Embossing Co. (Albany, NY), 81 blocks in their original wooden box bottom, and with a custom made wood and cardboard lid to boot. (The original cardboard lid is still here too, split in half but handy for all of the suggestion designs the underside provides.) With the most beautiful