Wooden Parquetry Set in Slide Top Box antique objects quite an elegant and refined

quite an elegant and refined piece

with red tree at center and ambiguous

from pale blond to khaki to olive to brown

namely some glue that oozed out a bit on the lower sections of both sides

4" tall with it

Wooden Parquetry Set in Slide Top Box antique objects quite an elegant and refinedReally a lovely little parquetry set, in a sweet little slide top box into which the tiles fit just perfectly, and look quite pretty all neatly packed up. I really have no sense of the age or origins of this set, and have not found another like it, but do think it has a fair amount of age, including because there are a couple of splits in the wood on the sliding lid of the box. In any event, the 53 tiles (I discarded one broken one) are a treat to