SOLD Antique German Wooden Parquetry Blocks in Original Box, Double Layer (Near Full) whimsy goblet Mr Toko and his sons

Mr Toko and his sons thus go off to dig mice

7" long x 2 3/8" in diameter

though I am confident they are indeed Villeroy & Boch

with some scattered toning and spotting and a couple of water stains as documented

He returned to the train in this later work

SOLD Antique German Wooden Parquetry Blocks in Original Box, Double Layer (Near Full) whimsy goblet Mr Toko and his sonsThese 19th century parquetry sets are hard to find, and I think very beautiful, so I always jump on them when I come across them. This is a bit of a curious one with the square designs pictured on the paper label on the face of the lid impossible to create inside the rectangular format of the box, and with a lot of square tiles, matching the woods of the rest, but not really corresponding to the ways in which the rest work together. Perhaps a merger