Gorgeous Double Layer Victorian Parquetry Puzzle in Original Box with Hand-colored Design Cards folding Stanley ruler secured with ribbons toughly wrapped

secured with ribbons toughly wrapped around their necks

While I have found some others of the larger

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I can't get enough of these old painted wooden cutouts--I just love the combination of graphic silhouette and weathered surface

but it is the sides that really make this basket

Gorgeous Double Layer Victorian Parquetry Puzzle in Original Box with Hand-colored Design Cards folding Stanley ruler secured with ribbons toughly wrappedReally special! The hand colored lithograph on the front of the slide top box holding this parquetry set reads "The Art of Parqueter" across the top and then "Chinese Puzzle" below, relating parquetry to the Chinese tangram puzzle, which had become popular in both Europe and the U. S. in the 19th century. One finds Victorian era Tangram sets around in wood or ceramic and comprised of seven flat polygons to be arranged in a square, but this is the