Antique Wooden Game of Fifteen in Jointed Tray july 4 which I love for their

which I love for their forms as well as for their transfer decoration

mostly around the edges

The subtle gradations among all those perfect squares at right really does it for me

At the center is a painting of a saint

is I think a really lovely more contemporary example

Antique Wooden Game of Fifteen in Jointed Tray july 4 which I love for theirI just like these old 15 games, with blocks that one is meant to mix up then slide around to get back in numerical order. Simple and slow and tactile. This one with handwritten number in graphite looks perhaps as if written over at some point, I presume because the earlier ones had worn pretty well away. Funnily, the extra block, or plug which must be removed in order to play is numbered 18 rather than 16, suggesting perhaps a misread of the original