Fifteen Puzzle Sliding Numbers Game in Birds Eye Veneer Box incan holding jewelry on the dresser

holding jewelry on the dresser or vanity

I believe this would have been used for cooking as well as serving

it would hold just about anything you might want to put in it and there would still be room for more

Though I am not entirely certain what that might be

about 150-170 years ago Kuna women of Panama began making Molas using the reverse appliqué technique

Fifteen Puzzle Sliding Numbers Game in Birds Eye Veneer Box incan holding jewelry on the dresserThere 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