SOLD Antique German Wooden Parquetry Blocks in Original Box, Double Layer (Near Full) hand-painted slides Surface wear as pictured

Surface wear as pictured

but tintype examples seem very few and far between

Plus a great little pointing hand at bottom left and "directions for odd colors" on reverse

it must have pulled up or down

With fantastic craquelure to the varnished surface

SOLD Antique German Wooden Parquetry Blocks in Original Box, Double Layer (Near Full) hand-painted slides Surface wear as picturedThese 19th century parquetry sets are hard to find, and I think very beautiful, so I always jump on them when I come across them. This is a bit of a curious one with the square designs pictured on the paper label on the face of the lid impossible to create inside the rectangular format of the box, and with a lot of square tiles, matching the woods of the rest, but not really corresponding to the ways in which the rest work together. Perhaps a merger