Earliest Painted Treen Apple Box with Carved Stem, Beautifully Worn and Weathered wax butter with a small chip to

with a small chip to the back of one leg

with lines separating double digits

earlyish 1900s I would guess

but I think this interesting old handmade dial would be instructive if a novice like me were to try to put it to use

) No real reason one would have decorated a shoe last in this manner I don't believe other than just to make it feel special

Earliest Painted Treen Apple Box with Carved Stem, Beautifully Worn and Weathered wax butter with a small chip toAs previously noted and perhaps as explicitly evident! I always have an eye out for turned wooden apples. I love them as objects, and as vessels, and as painted surfaces, and they vary a great deal depending on when they were made and the lives they have lived. This is I believe the earliest example I have found, with a carved, tapered stem, unusual, and the thin ribs from being turned on a lathe subtly visible through the very soft red and yellow