Old Turned Wooden Apple with Horse Roulette Spinner Inside couple on cliff Sold in the old wooden

Sold in the old wooden frame I found her in

The handwritten text covering every unstitched inch of this looks to me to be German

and information

” housed in their original box

to me it speaks all about absence and also anticipation--of the specific pipe that once lay there (and was dumped into the bowl) and of the one it now awaits

Old Turned Wooden Apple with Horse Roulette Spinner Inside couple on cliff Sold in the old woodenI'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