Lovely Old Painted Wooden Apple Shaped Puzzle configuration cards so was thrilled to find

so was thrilled to find this delicate

Perhaps my favorite stool I've ever had--and I've had quite a lot of old stools--and pretty much pure sculpture to me

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

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

Lovely Old Painted Wooden Apple Shaped Puzzle configuration cards so was thrilled to findI'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