Fifteen Puzzle Sliding Numbers Game in Birds Eye Veneer Box tabletop toy The lid of one features

The lid of one features an archer in green and burgundy on yellow horse

and cut tin fins--silver on the body

there is no sign of a sticker on his base

The bentwood is approximately 3/8 inches thick

Fifteen Puzzle Sliding Numbers Game in Birds Eye Veneer Box tabletop toy The lid of one featuresThere is a terrific book by Jerry Slocum and Dic Sonneveld titled "The Fifteen Puzzle" (check it out here), which details the rise of the game's popularity in the 1880s ad the many iterations that have been produced over the years since. (It also details a bunch of variations on solving it, the most basic being sliding the tiles to put them in order from 1 15.) In it is pictured one set that looks a very much like this one, which they speculate might