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

and spend the winter playing

I'm not quite totally sure the purpose of this one

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

painting it all a great dark red

though the arched back

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