Excellent, Extra Large c. 1900 Painted Treen Apple with Horse Racing Game hopi katchina plus 15 Easterbrook 788 oval

plus 15 Easterbrook 788 oval points

and which I might guess someone's mother lovingly made for them

There also appears to have been a tiny inlaid repair long ago

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Excellent, Extra Large c. 1900 Painted Treen Apple with Horse Racing Game hopi katchina plus 15 Easterbrook 788 oval(Photos do no justice here to the scale and beauty of this apple.) This is an early (as far as these go)c. 1900 extra large and extra fine turned and hand painted wood apple. These apples were made in Japan for export to the West, in various sizes, sometimes with a horse race game inside, sometimes with a miniature tea set, sometimes perhaps with nothing at all but it is hard to know now! Happily this one still holds the horse race game, complete with