Very Scarce C. 1860s German Architectural Building Blocks with Hand-colored Plates folk art cat face along with hand-written notes detailing

along with hand-written notes detailing dimensions and prices

"  A little research into Roshon photography of Lebabon PA leads me to Christian S Roshon

are what especially make him for me

Seems to me his letterhead engraving could provide the basis for a pretty excellent tattoo

Very Scarce C. 1860s German Architectural Building Blocks with Hand-colored Plates folk art cat face along with hand-written notes detailingOh 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