Japanese Hand-painted Treen Nesting Eggs Set with Butterfly, c. 1920s 50 ft measuring tape Mantia Bos: 4 5/8” x

Mantia Bos: 4 5/8” x 3 1/8”

and elbows too

I am not certain the date on this--it seems Bluteau was still actively making and selling throughout the first decade of the 2000s

and are a bit unusual in featuring both dots and numbers both

7 7/8 across at rotating plate {framing letter or number to be used

Japanese Hand-painted Treen Nesting Eggs Set with Butterfly, c. 1920s 50 ft measuring tape Mantia Bos: 4 5/8” xI've had just a couple of sets of Japanese wooden nesting eggs before and, as with treen apples, also made in Japan and to which they are close kin, I always keep an eye out for them, though they are rarer than apples to find. C. 1920s I believe, with the shells of each egg progressively thinner as they get smaller; rare to find a set of these with all of the eggs in tact! (And indeed, one half of the smallest here was found taped together so I