Rare Victorian Six Sided Birds Cube Puzzle in Original Box with Hand-colored Plates California pottery vase red and green linen on

red and green linen on cream

I might guess that it was a shattered mirror that gave rise to this wonderful old house bank--which to my mind makes it extra lucky

All clubs are here

and small stains and smears here

though I would guess mid 20th century Native Alaskan Inuit

Rare Victorian Six Sided Birds Cube Puzzle in Original Box with Hand-colored Plates California pottery vase red and green linen onI love Victorian cube puzzles though am picky about which ones this one, with birds on all sides, is perhaps my favorite I've seen, and the only of its kind I have found. It remains housed in its original box (though with one edge lost and a repaired split in the lid) as well as with five hand colored plates showing the pictures on each side, the sixth shown on the lid. (Helpful I must say when solving it for the first time.) Personally, I'd put the