Set of Eight 1830s British Hand-colored Woodblock Riddle Cards state fair folk art as it needs to be

as it needs to be felt as much as seen

and to my eye just right with the perched bird surrounded by green just to their left

This is a terrific old dark wood pie crimper or pastry wheel with a turned wood handle and handy hook on the end

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

and I am pretty certain they are Scandinavian

Set of Eight 1830s British Hand-colored Woodblock Riddle Cards state fair folk art as it needs to beI 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