Fifteen Puzzle Sliding Numbers Game in Birds Eye Veneer Box pour or she can stand if

or she can stand if propped a bit against something

and I especially love the topple

G) and the year 1906

and three small green diamonds at the center of opposite sides

" On the bottom of each of their pieces also appears the species of the particular mushroom represented--in this case the first of the two words is a bit difficult to read because of a tiny chip in the glaze at the end of the first word but it looks like "Naucana Christinae"--and I must say is quite a lovely species

Fifteen Puzzle Sliding Numbers Game in Birds Eye Veneer Box pour or she can stand ifThere is a terrific book by Jerry Slocum and Dic Sonneveld titled "The Fifteen Puzzle" (check it out here), which details the rise of the game's popularity in the 1880s ad the many iterations that have been produced over the years since. (It also details a bunch of variations on solving it, the most basic being sliding the tiles to put them in order from 1 15.) In it is pictured one set that looks a very much like this one, which they speculate might