Fifteen Puzzle Sliding Numbers Game in Birds Eye Veneer Box George Kills Pretty Enemy I don't think this coffee

I don't think this coffee pot has ever been used

Animals are about 2 3/4" long give or take

Barrel boxes: both 3" tall

lidded bentwood pantry box or dry measure was made by E

and there must once have been a crank mechanism that this "wheel" connected to

Fifteen Puzzle Sliding Numbers Game in Birds Eye Veneer Box George Kills Pretty Enemy I don't think this coffeeThere 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