Rare Victorian Six Sided Birds Cube Puzzle in Original Box with Hand-colored Plates California pottery vase and small stains and smears

and small stains and smears here

I would put it in a proud place

if not gentle he'll smash pretty hard into the ladder on the other side

red and green linen on cream

Rare Victorian Six Sided Birds Cube Puzzle in Original Box with Hand-colored Plates California pottery vase and small stains and smearsI love Victorian cube puzzles though am picky about which ones this one, with birds on all sides, is perhaps my favorite I've seen, and the only of its kind I have found. It remains housed in its original box (though with one edge lost and a repaired split in the lid) as well as with five hand colored plates showing the pictures on each side, the sixth shown on the lid. (Helpful I must say when solving it for the first time.) Personally, I'd put the