Antique Wooden Game of Fifteen in Jointed Tray july 4 Super atmospheric and I think

Super atmospheric and I think quite beautiful

and then two banded patterns around the neck

is I think a really lovely more contemporary example

also by the diagonal of the of the bodies of two black men at left who have turned to watch

mostly around the edges

Antique Wooden Game of Fifteen in Jointed Tray july 4 Super atmospheric and I thinkI 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