Fifteen Puzzle Sliding Numbers Game in Birds Eye Veneer Box George Kills Pretty Enemy The Ibis in Egyptian culture

The Ibis in Egyptian culture was traditionally associated with Thoth the god of wisdom and writing

Animals are about 2 3/4" long give or take

At present

just a little darkening in a few spots

It is the perfect shade of green--somewhere between olive and kelly--with a fabulous pop of orange around the lid

Fifteen Puzzle Sliding Numbers Game in Birds Eye Veneer Box George Kills Pretty Enemy The Ibis in Egyptian cultureThere 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