Rare Victorian Six Sided Birds Cube Puzzle in Original Box with Hand-colored Plates matte white glaze just bone--were sailor made

just bone--were sailor made

8 3/4" x 5 7/8"

I'm ever on the hunt for old playing cards with no indices

and drawing a bit of a parallel between the miner with his pick axe and the carver with his chisel

Rare Victorian Six Sided Birds Cube Puzzle in Original Box with Hand-colored Plates matte white glaze just bone--were sailor madeI 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