Beautifully Faded Old Colorful Wooden Stacking Toy socket wrench set made of paper with jointed

made of paper with jointed wooden arms and legs

and surely one of a kind

highly collectible

with the box glazed in bright white and the flat lid in grays and yellow feeling very late 50s modernist abstraction

There is a maker's mark and "Sterling" stamped on the back

Beautifully Faded Old Colorful Wooden Stacking Toy socket wrench set made of paper with jointedIt's been a while since I found an old stacking toy that excited me, but this one did, and does, like a colorful modernist tower found the other day at a little antique shop in Rhode Island. I've always got an eye out for thinly sliced ones like this, but I've not come across another quite like it and am not sure the maker; there is no mark anywhere on it as far as I can see. It has a lot of years on it, with what I find beautiful softening to the