Earlier 20th Century Japanese Painted Treen Apple with Horse Roulette Inside hand-embrodiered his head and hands hard

his head and hands hard papier mache and his body a wire spring hidden underneath his brown cloth jumpsuit

Perfect now for holding--or delivering

I find these very tender things--and the perfect thing to share with a young person who thinks life is hard: day after day of mopping

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

A wonderful

Earlier 20th Century Japanese Painted Treen Apple with Horse Roulette Inside hand-embrodiered his head and hands hardI just can't resist these treen apples, each its own thing based on when it was made and the life it has lived, with variations in size and paint too. Many housed games or miniature tea sets horse roulette is my favorite. And the one time owner of this one appears to have been French, with handwritten notes on the roulette wheel, and on the horse tokens too, declaring each to either represent rouge or noir (red or black) making it more like a game of