Lovely Old Painted Wooden Apple Shaped Puzzle carved skeleton which a handwritten note on

which a handwritten note on reverse describes as  depicting (I think it reads) "Bear Mountain and Pond" (there's a bridge mentioned too

underlining "Handmade" for emphasis

14" across at arm

or clappers

love and truth having endured many years and many challenges

Lovely Old Painted Wooden Apple Shaped Puzzle carved skeleton which a handwritten note onI'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