Antique Wooden Game of Fifteen in Jointed Tray july 4 mostly around the edges

mostly around the edges

is I think a really lovely more contemporary example

Hard to beat that green box with red liner and perfectly lined up safety pins--and pretty clever too

and then two banded patterns around the neck

At the center is a painting of a saint

Antique Wooden Game of Fifteen in Jointed Tray july 4 mostly around the edgesI just like these old 15 games, with blocks that one is meant to mix up then slide around to get back in numerical order. Simple and slow and tactile. This one with handwritten number in graphite looks perhaps as if written over at some point, I presume because the earlier ones had worn pretty well away. Funnily, the extra block, or plug which must be removed in order to play is numbered 18 rather than 16, suggesting perhaps a misread of the original