Earliest Painted Treen Apple Box with Carved Stem, Beautifully Worn and Weathered pressed clay planter I believe whisk brooms/brushes of

I believe whisk brooms/brushes of this sort of construction are generally referred to "turkey wing"--though the bristles on most are more angled

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which she’s carefully labeled

Each spoon measures 2 7/8" long x 9/16" wide x just shy of 1/2" deep

thinner and crackled in others

Earliest Painted Treen Apple Box with Carved Stem, Beautifully Worn and Weathered pressed clay planter I believe whisk brooms/brushes ofAs previously noted and perhaps as explicitly evident! I always have an eye out for turned wooden apples. I love them as objects, and as vessels, and as painted surfaces, and they vary a great deal depending on when they were made and the lives they have lived. This is I believe the earliest example I have found, with a carved, tapered stem, unusual, and the thin ribs from being turned on a lathe subtly visible through the very soft red and yellow