Beautiful Old Wooden Labyrinth Game with Hand-painted Lid, Presumed Japanese stained wood whimsey 64 pages unnumbered (including blank

64 pages unnumbered (including blank pages)

I found this piece at an estate sale in Marblehead

Almost everything about this one

but I'm not sure what it was

Beautiful Old Wooden Labyrinth Game with Hand-painted Lid, Presumed Japanese stained wood whimsey 64 pages unnumbered (including blankI believe this was most likely made in Japan, early 20th century or so, as the manner and decoration reminds me very much of antique Japanese wooden nesting eggs and horse racing games inside treen boxes I've found on a few occasions. I've been having a bit of a moment with beautiful old labyrinth maze games puzzles, here with not one by six wooden balls that one wants to get through the opening on one side of "home" at the center. Beautifully