Lovely Old Painted Wooden Apple Shaped Puzzle configuration cards Perhaps my favorite stool I've

Perhaps my favorite stool I've ever had--and I've had quite a lot of old stools--and pretty much pure sculpture to me

) And then this curious gesture she makes with her raised hand

Either its maker or someone later glued it to a slab of green-gray slate

4" x 2 1/2" and in overall good condition

with a mat laid over top to which the drawing is stuck with shiny red star-shaped stickers from the back side

Lovely Old Painted Wooden Apple Shaped Puzzle configuration cards Perhaps my favorite stool I'veI've had a few old painted treen apple boxes (which were made in Japan for Western export, beginning in the late 19th c. I believe) and I've looked at many more (some made as nesting boxes, some with roulette games inside) but I'd never seen one configured as a puzzle before. This is a fairly old one, 1920s or so I might guess based on the paint. I haven't dared to take it apart in case putting it back together is harder than it looks, but I am sure a