Excellent, Extra Large c. 1900 Painted Treen Apple with Horse Racing Game matchsticks There is one little hairline

There is one little hairline crack on one planter that runs from the lip down about a third of the way on one planter

for the circus furniture

which may be original to the material/the making of the carvings

and finely done--to my eye this vase is pretty close to a perfect thing

is Peruvian

Excellent, Extra Large c. 1900 Painted Treen Apple with Horse Racing Game matchsticks There is one little hairline(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