Group of Four Painted Treen Apples (Mixed Set) handmade napkin rings The image of a hand

The image of a hand gripping a scroll or bar was a common one during the Victorian era--generally associated with ideas of fortitude and resilience

but they do easily screw out should one want to rid this piece of function

definitely used and a bit faded

This snake looks almost as if it is made of wood

and kind of like an alter

Group of Four Painted Treen Apples (Mixed Set) handmade napkin rings The image of a handThis is a mixed lot of painted treen apples, varying somewhat in age, but I found them together like this, and they're perfectly progressive in scale, and it gives me no end of pleasure to look at them lined up in a row, so here they are as a set of four. Photos give a good sense of each one including (fairly minor) imperfections: there is one hairline crack to the upper half of the largest one on one side, and the third has lost its stem (I've