Big, Beautiful Old Wooden Block Set wooden compass McIntosh for a Histology class

McIntosh for a Histology class at Harvard in 1941

and it feels good to grip

comes into a thousand hands

followed by the letters DSD I believe

--for sale

Big, Beautiful Old Wooden Block Set wooden compass McIntosh for a Histology classAs is surely clear by now, I love old blocks sets of all sorts, but there is something uniquely satisfying about large sets of unpainted wooden ones like this elegant and elemental and like the pure embodiment of creative possibility. And it is rare that I come across a set with such a complete scope of sizes as this a modular range of rectangles and squares, plus round columns and half spheres and very pointy cones, too. Beautiful. I don't have