Fifteen Puzzle Sliding Numbers Game in Birds Eye Veneer Box pour I believe this clown dates

I believe this clown dates to the 1940s or so

The figures can be configured in a variety of positions

or she can stand if propped a bit against something

and I especially love the topple

L'Assiette au Beurre (literally The Butter Plate

Fifteen Puzzle Sliding Numbers Game in Birds Eye Veneer Box pour I believe this clown datesThere is a terrific book by Jerry Slocum and Dic Sonneveld titled "The Fifteen Puzzle" (check it out here), which details the rise of the game's popularity in the 1880s ad the many iterations that have been produced over the years since. (It also details a bunch of variations on solving it, the most basic being sliding the tiles to put them in order from 1 15.) In it is pictured one set that looks a very much like this one, which they speculate might