Fifteen Puzzle Sliding Numbers Game in Birds Eye Veneer Box incan In recent years I’ve become

In recent years I’ve become a huge fan of the work of many Canadian Inuit & First Nations artists

Hand-painted and finely made

I just fell in love with these winged figures

2 3/8" long x 1 3/4" wide x 1 7/8" tall and in excellent condition

Though I am not entirely certain what that might be

Fifteen Puzzle Sliding Numbers Game in Birds Eye Veneer Box incan In recent years I’ve becomeThere 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