Set of Eight 1830s British Hand-colored Woodblock Riddle Cards state fair folk art The beautiful apples

The beautiful apples

Terrific color (the darker than primary red adds a lot)

or to frame up a few together

but as they are of the same ilk--both made in the Soviet Union in the 1930s or so--and seem well suited to one another

and I am pretty certain they are Scandinavian

Set of Eight 1830s British Hand-colored Woodblock Riddle Cards state fair folk art The beautiful applesI love a riddle and thought (think) these riddle cards are just terrific looking, c. 1830s British, woodblock printed with hand painted watercolor eight from what I believe was originally a set of twelve, extremely rare. Of course I am not smart enough to solve them, but surely there is someone out there who can! It seems to me there are several layers of clues in each the imagery itself pointing to a solution, and the text doing it another way. (For