Vintage Holgate Primary Color Nesting Cubes with Graduated Rattles tabletop wooden house\ and spend the winter playing

and spend the winter playing

earlyish 20th century I believe

so it is impossible to know if it was signed on the back

I see a green snake with bared teeth and fantastically long tongue

painting it all a great dark red

Vintage Holgate Primary Color Nesting Cubes with Graduated Rattles tabletop wooden house\ and spend the winter playingOld 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