Earliest Painted Treen Apple Box with Carved Stem, Beautifully Worn and Weathered wax butter with a small chip to

with a small chip to the back of one leg

It reminds me of the early years of MTV

crayon and pastel on paper

most of the figures with tabs added on reverse for standing them up

but I think this interesting old handmade dial would be instructive if a novice like me were to try to put it to use

Earliest Painted Treen Apple Box with Carved Stem, Beautifully Worn and Weathered wax butter with a small chip toAs 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