Merry's Book of Puzzles, 1856, with Many Rebuses (and other fun things) needlepoint bookmark The stone on the top

The stone on the top of the box appears to be Red Jasper

meaning that all those many many chip carved bits are small in scale and were very precisely laid

Louis newspaper from 1945

all but one of the original nails on the body of the box are in place

Merry's Book of Puzzles, 1856, with Many Rebuses (and other fun things) needlepoint bookmark The stone on the topThis 1856 (I believe first edition) copy of Merry's Book of Puzzles "by Robert Merry" a pseudonym for John Newton Stearns shows its age, but it's a fun one and a scarce one, especially for the page after page of rebus puzzles that fill the first chunk of the book many of which I have photographed, so good! Published for Victorian children, it includes 382 puzzles with an answer key in the rear (here with solutions for puzzles only through #202 due to