Excellent, Extra Large c. 1900 Painted Treen Apple with Horse Racing Game for the sewing studio (This one specifically also reminds

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

placing it in relief and giving this piece terrific texture

Binding is in pretty good shape and the book is holding together very well

but I think it may be my favorite--elegantly carved with eye-shaped openings on each side exposing a very round ball inside--and the very first grain-painted whimsy I have ever seen

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 (This one specifically also reminds(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