Tiger That Looks to Be a Cheetah, Handmade, Hand-painted Folk Art Puzzle in Custom Box antique frog mug A couple of small stains

A couple of small stains at top right which look like watercolor or ink smears perhaps original to the paper on which it was done

which the characters on these bookends remind me a bit of

I just had the thought that maybe H Manning was a magician and this was a trick box

Seems like there may be a little bit of something stuck in the bottom of the center (3/16) bit hole

Personally I think this is the best one of all

Tiger That Looks to Be a Cheetah, Handmade, Hand-painted Folk Art Puzzle in Custom Box antique frog mug A couple of small stainsTotal love at first sight with this one, purchased from a favorite Maine based dealer I've forever got an eye out for a homemade jigsaw puzzle but in my experience they're rare to find, and the painting here, of a cheetah (right?), I think puts this one in a class of its own! Really quite wonderfully done, very painterly, better in hand and very full life. A few of the cuts of the wooden pieces are a bit wonky, but I find that, and the hand written