Rare Embossing Co Angle Design Blocks, 1930s heating stone box 12” l x 6 3/4”

12” l x 6 3/4” w x 4” t and in good

The leather hinge connecting the lid to base on the back side is mostly split but one wouldn't know it when closed

) I love the very long points

One sees these old verre eglomisé--or reverse painted glass--panels around from time to time

Rare Embossing Co Angle Design Blocks, 1930s heating stone box 12” l x 6 3/4”I am forever looking at, and for, old sets of blocks of interesting design, but I have never ever seen another of this particular set, produced by The Embossing Co. of Albany, NY, which also produced the much better known and widely distributed Color Cubes. I have found one reference out there to another set similar to these with the same basic box, but for "Curve Design" rather than "Angle Design" blocks, and dated to the mid 1930s. A writer about