| Chinese puzzleball set | ||||
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| These sets are fairly common, but they are interesting and attractive.  The
        base of each piece has nested ivory balls carved one inside the other.  Puzzleball sets
        were mass-produced starting approximately in the 1860's, although this set is 100 years more
        recent than that.  I do have an early Chinese puzzleball set in the
        collection.  | ||||