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£600
A Cantonese ivory tangram puzzle accompanied with two xylographic books, the carved puzzle box containing seven carved and pierced shapes, 7 x 7 cm, the books with carved covers and paper pages with the puzzles and the solutions, 10.5 x 8.5 cm (3).
Provenance; Sir Thomas Symmonds Tomlinson, (1877 - 1965), then by descent. Tomlinson became Town Magistrate in Zanzibar in 1907, rising to become Lord Chief Justice between 1925 - 1928, (knighted in 1925), he was instrumental in effectuating the Zanzibar Courts Decree and the British Subordinate Courts Order of 1923.
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