My New Favorite Blocks Ever! pink velvet pin cushion I know that is Hudson

I know that is Hudson River School and I am pretty certain 1830-1850 or so

and the lily symbolizes purity of character

That pitchfork

and appears to me to be quite old

--on this novelty postcard created by M

My New Favorite Blocks Ever! pink velvet pin cushion I know that is HudsonI've never seen another set of blocks quite like these, and they are my new favorites ever! (Of course I would love to have a huge lot of them, but there's also something just right about what's here, which I found in an old cardboard box at an antiques shop in Freeport, Maine. I find the colors exactly perfect, the proportions exactly right, and one each of the rectangular blocks are two square windows on one side and a window and a door on the