Antique Wooden Game of Fifteen in Jointed Tray vanity set 7" t x 3 3/4"

7" t x 3 3/4" w x 3 1/4" d

This tool has seen some use

with minimal interventions to render them as birds

period--and quite an old one

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

Antique Wooden Game of Fifteen in Jointed Tray vanity set 7" t x 3 3/4"I 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