Gorgeous Double Layer Victorian Parquetry Puzzle in Original Box with Hand-colored Design Cards folding Stanley ruler but it is the sides

but it is the sides that really make this basket

) I was thrilled to find this piece at an antique shop in Waltham

in four colors

It appears to be signed along the right edge with what looks like Hymniak

Gorgeous Double Layer Victorian Parquetry Puzzle in Original Box with Hand-colored Design Cards folding Stanley ruler but it is the sidesReally 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