Antique Handmade Wooden Fifteen Puzzle Game paper fan and bears a strong resemblance

and bears a strong resemblance to his various fish platters

From a second batch of drawings by the prolific and ever inventive Chicago artist James Frederic Bone (1929-2015)

elegantly rendered

--and this finely handmade vintage Indian Theli bag is really a stunning one

I especially love that they show a bit of swagger

Antique Handmade Wooden Fifteen Puzzle Game paper fan and bears a strong resemblanceThis is a sweet, lovingly crafted old handmade 15 puzzle game, last quarter of the 19th century I believe, and found in Chester County, Pennsylvania. The game is played by removing the blank square and mixing up the other numbered squares, then sliding them to get them back in order 1 15. The framework is held together with twelve handmade nails with irregular rectangular heads. The squares are hand numbered in ink, as is the top edge of the frame (1