Gorgeous Double Layer Victorian Parquetry Puzzle in Original Box with Hand-colored Design Cards painting of two figures reminding me a bit of

reminding me a bit of a Helen Frankenthaler painting

from a portfolio of a series of botanical studies by an Elsie (Eliza) M

which I think is just a beautiful object I’d hang on the wall

and fabulous color

or—as he himself has travelled at least one ocean and more than a century—perhaps to be tucked into a suitcase as a good luck talisman

Gorgeous Double Layer Victorian Parquetry Puzzle in Original Box with Hand-colored Design Cards painting of two figures reminding me a bit ofReally special! The hand colored lithograph on the front of the slide top box holding this parquetry set reads "The Art of Parqueter" across the top and then "Chinese Puzzle" below, relating parquetry to the Chinese tangram puzzle, which had become popular in both Europe and the U. S. in the 19th century. One finds Victorian era Tangram sets around in wood or ceramic and comprised of seven flat polygons to be arranged in a square, but this is the