Gorgeous Double Layer Victorian Parquetry Puzzle in Original Box with Hand-colored Design Cards painting of two figures 3 1/2" across at base

3 1/2" across at base

and fabulous color

or—as he himself has travelled at least one ocean and more than a century—perhaps to be tucked into a suitcase as a good luck talisman

Key measures 2 5/16" l

Gorgeous Double Layer Victorian Parquetry Puzzle in Original Box with Hand-colored Design Cards painting of two figures 3 1/2" across at baseReally 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