SOLD Antique German Wooden Parquetry Blocks in Original Box, Double Layer (Near Full) hand-painted slides it must have pulled up

it must have pulled up or down

a happy surprise

Plus a great little pointing hand at bottom left and "directions for odd colors" on reverse

but tintype examples seem very few and far between

who can pose in a variety of ways

SOLD Antique German Wooden Parquetry Blocks in Original Box, Double Layer (Near Full) hand-painted slides it must have pulled upThese 19th century parquetry sets are hard to find, and I think very beautiful, so I always jump on them when I come across them. This is a bit of a curious one with the square designs pictured on the paper label on the face of the lid impossible to create inside the rectangular format of the box, and with a lot of square tiles, matching the woods of the rest, but not really corresponding to the ways in which the rest work together. Perhaps a merger