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

made of mother of pearl and very finely hand-carved with different scenes on either side

22 pages filled front and back (so 44 filled page faces

I might guess that it was a shattered mirror that gave rise to this wonderful old house bank--which to my mind makes it extra lucky

giant candle before him and what looks like an all seeing eye overhead

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