Vintage Naef Wooden Stacking Bocks - Set of Seventeen cutout wooden dog as it's the Kansas State

as it's the Kansas State bird

I was drawn to the drama of this one

and one can just imagine all of these specific planes all meeting in the sky of this young boy's mind

No way could I resist this little Japanese Hariko (paper mache) tiger

Strangest are the arms--one entirely missing

Vintage Naef Wooden Stacking Bocks - Set of Seventeen cutout wooden dog as it's the Kansas StateThese were a happy find the other day at a favorite shop in New Hampshire I've had a couple of rare sets of colored blocks of the same form designed by renowned Swiss carpenter and designer Kurt Naef (19262006) in 1954, but had never seen a set of unpainted wooden ones, though I have since learned that they were produced. No box with these and they are unmarked, but it's quite clear that is what they are, and all signs point to this being a. mid