Lovely Mid-Century Puzzle Cube In Blonde Box with Peephole tin sign It's a beautifully crafted piece

It's a beautifully crafted piece

I think what we have here is actually two sets (at least) which were likely combined some time ago—some of them original to this box

looking to me as if it might just have spotted a cat in the distance

and the wonderfully  painted ones (with fish

it's a bit of a mystery to me

Lovely Mid-Century Puzzle Cube In Blonde Box with Peephole tin sign It's a beautifully crafted pieceI found an exact match of this one selling on 1st Dibs for $1200 describing it as Eames inspired mid century the former seeming crazy but the latter seeming right. I have not being able to figure out who made it, but would guess there were not too many of them made; it feels very small batch to me. In any event, a lovely thing I think, made especially good by the round cutout on each side of the box, though one I have been wary to take all the way