Excellent, Extra Large c. 1900 Painted Treen Apple with Horse Racing Game for the sewing studio sturdy and sound and useful

sturdy and sound and useful still

placing it in relief and giving this piece terrific texture

The blue paint is

(This one specifically also reminds me a bit of the sign language paintings of the late

Perhaps this carving once came at the end of a carved whimsy chain

Excellent, Extra Large c. 1900 Painted Treen Apple with Horse Racing Game for the sewing studio sturdy and sound and useful(Photos do no justice here to the scale and beauty of this apple.) This is an early (as far as these go)c. 1900 extra large and extra fine turned and hand painted wood apple. These apples were made in Japan for export to the West, in various sizes, sometimes with a horse race game inside, sometimes with a miniature tea set, sometimes perhaps with nothing at all but it is hard to know now! Happily this one still holds the horse race game, complete with