Schoenhut's little-tot's building blocks. [electronic resource].

Schoenhut [approximately 1925]

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Schoenhut's offered a variety of building block sets, some colourful and decorated, others unembellished. This ""Little-tot's"" set, for example, includes the following description on its cover: ""An assortment of plain wooden blocks, made of clean wood, sawed to various sizes and shapes on the multiple basis. No cheaply colored or printed blocks used, no round dowels or columns used (thus avoiding slipping on when lying around the floor)"". Other plain sets included ""Hill"" Kindergarten-Primary Floor Blocks, with large blocks made of ""nice, clean Basswood lumber"", the smaller pieces of maple; and ""Wood-to-Build"", also made from ""nice clean hard lumber"", unpainted. By contrast, a catalogue of ca. 1930 offered, in addition to the plain ""Little-tot's"", alternate sets which were decorated and colourful, comprising an assortment of the regular blocks with some pieces ""decorated as windows - doors - archways - etc."", and some ""nicely colored with stain"". Other coloured and decorated sets included ""Alphies"" A-B-C Blocks and Blox-DeLuxe

Toys United States Specimens; Jouets États-Unis Spécimens; Blocks (Toys) United States Specimens; Jouets en Bois États-Unis Spécimens; Wooden toys United States Specimens; Cubes (Pièces de jeu) États-Unis Spécimens.

Stacking assembly system toys

A. Schoenhut Company