Vintage Holgate Primary Color Nesting Cubes with Graduated Rattles tabletop wooden house\ but occasionally the graphics on

but occasionally the graphics on something will just jump out and call to me--and really

I'm not quite totally sure the purpose of this one

earlyish 20th century I believe

and spend the winter playing

Vintage Holgate Primary Color Nesting Cubes with Graduated Rattles tabletop wooden house\ but occasionally the graphics onOld Holgate nesting stacking boxes are among the things I stalk, though I've only ever scored one set, and I think whoever out there has some is never letting them go. There are a few different sizes and varieties that were made, all highly covetable, but I have never seen another set like this: inside the walls of each of the boxes are what I'd guess are tiny metal balls, which make a rattle, with the pitch graduated from highest for the smallest