Excellent Antique Modernist (Very Froebel-esque) Handmade Wooden Boxed Cube Puzzle folk art construction and I love how the

and I love how the "berries" at either end are cut in half

The backside reveals that it was likely made by a Leonard Aturill Story (whose father

in being executed on cloth

but I am pretty certain it is carved of ivory and really a sweet little object

Excellent Antique Modernist (Very Froebel-esque) Handmade Wooden Boxed Cube Puzzle folk art construction and I love how theI've found that the more times I shop Brimfield, the more I've become inclined to almost exclusively purchase little things that will easily fit in my bag (I seem to have gotten quite lazy about heavy schlepping) and particularly small things delivering unexpected delights that are easily overlooked by others who are moving faster across the fields. Like this handmade boxed puzzle cube which evinces both Froebel's kindergarten "Gifts" of boxed blocks