Tiger That Looks to Be a Cheetah, Handmade, Hand-painted Folk Art Puzzle in Custom Box antique frog mug especially for the contrast between

especially for the contrast between the brown leather glove and the black leather mitt to which it is sewn--which brings the construction of the whole thing into relief

A couple of small stains at top right which look like watercolor or ink smears perhaps original to the paper on which it was done

but how much better to pen a few poems with this

There is a small bit of loss to the tail of the bird and to the very tip of its beak

I just had the thought that maybe H Manning was a magician and this was a trick box

Tiger That Looks to Be a Cheetah, Handmade, Hand-painted Folk Art Puzzle in Custom Box antique frog mug especially for the contrast betweenTotal love at first sight with this one, purchased from a favorite Maine based dealer I've forever got an eye out for a homemade jigsaw puzzle but in my experience they're rare to find, and the painting here, of a cheetah (right?), I think puts this one in a class of its own! Really quite wonderfully done, very painterly, better in hand and very full life. A few of the cuts of the wooden pieces are a bit wonky, but I find that, and the hand written