Antique Wooden Game of Fifteen in Jointed Tray vanity set ) Solid brass

) Solid brass

but there is something tender and intimate about the photo

Actual dimensions: Duck: 5 1/2" x 5 3/4"

period--and quite an old one

Antique Wooden Game of Fifteen in Jointed Tray vanity set ) Solid brassI just like these old 15 games, with blocks that one is meant to mix up then slide around to get back in numerical order. Simple and slow and tactile. This one with handwritten number in graphite looks perhaps as if written over at some point, I presume because the earlier ones had worn pretty well away. Funnily, the extra block, or plug which must be removed in order to play is numbered 18 rather than 16, suggesting perhaps a misread of the original