Earlier 20th Century Japanese Painted Treen Apple with Horse Roulette Inside hand-embrodiered More pegs included that one

More pegs included that one could ever need

that one dated 1919 and this one I presume from around the same time

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

12 1/4 t x 14 3/8 w x 4” d overall

I'm trying hard to get tone/coloration on my photos of photographs as close to actual as possible

Earlier 20th Century Japanese Painted Treen Apple with Horse Roulette Inside hand-embrodiered More pegs included that oneI 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