Very Used Partial Set of Antique Milton Bradley Geometric Solids in Original Box primitive kitchen tool two staring off into space

two staring off into space as if contemplating the meaning of life

I especially love the tornado of smoke rising from his cigar

Gödde (Gödde Brothers)

which I think contribute to a sense of this as a committed and intrepid athlete

to the mid to late 19th century

Very Used Partial Set of Antique Milton Bradley Geometric Solids in Original Box primitive kitchen tool two staring off into spaceThese old Milton Bradley "New Forms and Solids Improved" blocks are a mess: drawn on, beaten up, and I think a mish mosh from a couple of different sets, with many of the forms detailed on the lid of the box long since gone. But I still love them, including for the fact that surely they were used in a classroom, with some of the writing on them detailing various romances (Wayne + Joyce for ex. plus a few different couples identified only with