SOLD Beautifully Primitive Antique Handmade Pine and Tin Marble Maze bookplate great rich color

great rich color

and this one I think in a league entirely of its own

Screen and strap well attached

I think European

and as well as cultivating manual dexterity

SOLD Beautifully Primitive Antique Handmade Pine and Tin Marble Maze bookplate great rich colorI've had one or two marble "mazes" of this sort over the years, but this is the oldest and the most primitively handmade I've seen, as so of course I think the most beautiful. Turning it over reveals the wood base to be quite a ways from perfectly round, and so the maze, constructed of tin strips set into radially carved niches, is oblong too. I'm sure I've got a few old marbles lying around that I'll send along with it so to be able to play it