Antique Handmade Wooden Fifteen Puzzle Game paper fan elegantly rendered

elegantly rendered

annotated Xerox copy of a hand-written price-list detailing many dozens of Inuit prints available

From a second batch of drawings by the prolific and ever inventive Chicago artist James Frederic Bone (1929-2015)

I especially love that they show a bit of swagger

The lidded sugar bowl measures 4

Antique Handmade Wooden Fifteen Puzzle Game paper fan elegantly renderedThis is a sweet, lovingly crafted old handmade 15 puzzle game, last quarter of the 19th century I believe, and found in Chester County, Pennsylvania. The game is played by removing the blank square and mixing up the other numbered squares, then sliding them to get them back in order 1 15. The framework is held together with twelve handmade nails with irregular rectangular heads. The squares are hand numbered in ink, as is the top edge of the frame (1