Creative Playthings MCM Birds on a Tree Puzzle and Balancing Toy u.s. and French flags and a tiny white mark

and a tiny white mark on one side edge of the top

Some wear and light rusting to the candleholder

varnished wood ferrule

is perfectly emblematic of their work with its intersecting faces

Creative Playthings MCM Birds on a Tree Puzzle and Balancing Toy u.s. and French flags and a tiny white markThis fabulous birds in tree puzzle balancing toy display piece I think perfectly encapsulates the spirit and philosophy of the wonderful design company that was Creative Playthings, founded in NYC by Frank and Theresa Caplan in 1945 with the goal of creating simple but beautiful educational toys and materials emphasizing shape, color and texture that would promote a childs creativity and imagination. And indeed this puzzle does, lending itself to an