Vintage Naef Wooden Stacking Bocks - Set of Seventeen cutout wooden dog Strangest are the arms--one entirely

Strangest are the arms--one entirely missing

I was drawn to the drama of this one

8 1/8" x 6 1/8" when closed (folded into a booklet)

with its dry wood front punctuated with old fat nails

as it's the Kansas State bird

Vintage Naef Wooden Stacking Bocks - Set of Seventeen cutout wooden dog Strangest are the arms--one entirelyThese were a happy find the other day at a favorite shop in New Hampshire I've had a couple of rare sets of colored blocks of the same form designed by renowned Swiss carpenter and designer Kurt Naef (19262006) in 1954, but had never seen a set of unpainted wooden ones, though I have since learned that they were produced. No box with these and they are unmarked, but it's quite clear that is what they are, and all signs point to this being a. mid