US Embossing Co. c. 1940s Plyladisk Puzzle painted figures against a painterly pale pink

against a painterly pale pink ground

I especially love the little face on the sun

features wonderful full page caricatures of "the sovereigns" of the era by Portuguese painter and caricaturist Tomás Júlio Leal da Câmara (1876-1948)

with no cracks or flaws in the celluloid

US Embossing Co. c. 1940s Plyladisk Puzzle painted figures against a painterly pale pinkGreat graphics on this Pyladisk puzzle box, produced by the US Embossing Co. in Albany, NY, which also produced the Color Cubes I love so much and the blue and white star blocks and yellow stacking disks inside are pretty great looking too. Late 1940s early 50s or so, I believe, and the name of the game is to move one complete stack of disks to another post without ever stacking a larger disk atop a smaller one. (Two pieces of twine taped to the