Perfect Old Turned and Painted Apple Box Portland Oregon ioof Signed at lower right

Signed at lower right

cheerful and charming and most definitely one of a kind

and especially the faces of the riders

There are still traces of some powder in the bottom of a few of them

Perfect Old Turned and Painted Apple Box Portland Oregon ioof Signed at lower rightMy love for these turned and painted wooden apple boxes will never die, and this is really a nice one. These were made in Japan for the Western market, beginning in the late 19th c. I believe, and often housed miniature tea sets or roulette style games and the like this one just the spinner for a horse racing game, chips and ball long gone (but it's cool how that spinner mounts perfectly on the interior spike of the apple's stem ). A fairly large and