Antique Handmade Wooden Fifteen Puzzle Game oriental 1832-1935)

1832-1935)

This striking wood engraving by Olin Dows (1904-1981) titled Women Washing (Taxco) is one of a series of prints the artist created while traveling through Mexico and Central America in the 1930s

and fans like this one

with just some fading to the color on the underside of the bottom

Antique Handmade Wooden Fifteen Puzzle Game oriental 1832-1935)This is a sweet, lovingly crafted old handmade 15 puzzle game, last quarter of the 19th century I believe, and found in Chester County, Pennsylvania. The game is played by removing the blank square and mixing up the other numbered squares, then sliding them to get them back in order 1 15. The framework is held together with twelve handmade nails with irregular rectangular heads. The squares are hand numbered in ink, as is the top edge of the frame (1