Early Hand-colored Six Sided Victorian Picture Puzzle (Missing a Few Blocks) brown painted antique basket but now without a handle

but now without a handle it's just a good object to set somewhere

I just fell in love with the drawing itself--a perfect combination of exactly the sort of thing one might observe on the streets of Paris and a wonderfully concise

crafted I'd think a century and a few decades ago from cigar box scraps

There is hand-printed wallpaper still hanging on to the sides of the box

6 7/8" tall x 1 1/8" wide and deep

Early Hand-colored Six Sided Victorian Picture Puzzle (Missing a Few Blocks) brown painted antique basket but now without a handleThere are a few cubes missing from this picture puzzle, and a split in the lid of its original wooden box, but it's an early one, c. 1850s or so I believe, and a lovely one, and I always love an image of girl with her loyal dog companion! It's a fairly challenging one, too, requiring more than a simple turn of blocks to move from one image to the next, but there is a logic to it all (though I know I've got a few blocks out of place in the photos!)