Pair of Early Wooden Block Houses tile game with original ball

with original ball

including for the its orientation to the corner of the block of wood from which it was carved

these toys were made famous in the USA by the Milton Bradley Company

and those mittened hands

with plenty of irregularities indigenous to the bone

Pair of Early Wooden Block Houses tile game with original ballI found these two little block houses along with some more block buildings of the same ilk, but as those seemed fit for the center of town, and these for just outside of it, I'm listing them separately. They are old ones (one in this lot had a sticker note of 1890s on it and another 1930s, so sometime in that range), and I think surely came from a larger set of houses, but these are the two that survived. Approx 2 1 8" t x 2 3 8 w. Good condition,