Fifteen Puzzle Sliding Numbers Game in Birds Eye Veneer Box incan I believe this would have

I believe this would have been used for cooking as well as serving

2 3/8" long x 1 3/4" wide x 1 7/8" tall and in excellent condition

and I think  just wonderful

Lee Bontecou

Though I am not entirely certain what that might be

Fifteen Puzzle Sliding Numbers Game in Birds Eye Veneer Box incan I believe this would haveThere 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