Gorgeous Double Layer Victorian Parquetry Puzzle in Original Box with Hand-colored Design Cards folding Stanley ruler It appears to be signed

It appears to be signed along the right edge with what looks like Hymniak

Columbia University

but it is the sides that really make this basket

Approx 2 5/8" on each side

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

Gorgeous Double Layer Victorian Parquetry Puzzle in Original Box with Hand-colored Design Cards folding Stanley ruler It appears to be signedReally 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