Lovely Old Painted Wooden Apple Shaped Puzzle configuration cards which would spin in the

which would spin in the wind

Either its maker or someone later glued it to a slab of green-gray slate

itself feeling like a story of grandness in decline and making me imagine it hanging on the plaster walls of some old Italian villa

or both up directly in front of them

Lovely Old Painted Wooden Apple Shaped Puzzle configuration cards which would spin in theI've had a few old painted treen apple boxes (which were made in Japan for Western export, beginning in the late 19th c. I believe) and I've looked at many more (some made as nesting boxes, some with roulette games inside) but I'd never seen one configured as a puzzle before. This is a fairly old one, 1920s or so I might guess based on the paint. I haven't dared to take it apart in case putting it back together is harder than it looks, but I am sure a