Lovely Old Painted Wooden Apple Shaped Puzzle configuration cards ) And then this curious

) And then this curious gesture she makes with her raised hand

itself feeling like a story of grandness in decline and making me imagine it hanging on the plaster walls of some old Italian villa

which would spin in the wind

4" x 2 1/2" and in overall good condition

Either its maker or someone later glued it to a slab of green-gray slate

Lovely Old Painted Wooden Apple Shaped Puzzle configuration cards ) And then this curiousI've had a few old painted treen apple boxes (which were made in Japan for Western export, beginning in the late 19th c. I believe) and I've looked at many more (some made as nesting boxes, some with roulette games inside) but I'd never seen one configured as a puzzle before. This is a fairly old one, 1920s or so I might guess based on the paint. I haven't dared to take it apart in case putting it back together is harder than it looks, but I am sure a