Old Turned Wooden Apple with Horse Roulette Spinner Inside carved toy dagger with an excellent untouched patina

with an excellent untouched patina

a little homemade drawing booklet dated Aug

32 numbered pages inside - photos show a selection

Very pretty

Old Turned Wooden Apple with Horse Roulette Spinner Inside carved toy dagger with an excellent untouched patinaI'll never get over my love for turned and painted wooden apple boxes like this one. These were made in Japan for the Western market, beginning in the late 19th c., and often housed miniature tea sets, or roulette style games this one still holding the spinner and ball for a horse racing game. The exterior shows general wear and one small ding to the wood, but to my mind one should pluck every one of these one finds and build an orchard of a