Fifteen Puzzle Sliding Numbers Game in Birds Eye Veneer Box George Kills Pretty Enemy At present

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I don't think this coffee pot has ever been used

5 1/2" at widest

A truly charming handmade wood painted ow

and there must once have been a crank mechanism that this "wheel" connected to

Fifteen Puzzle Sliding Numbers Game in Birds Eye Veneer Box George Kills Pretty Enemy At presentThere 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