Earliest Painted Treen Apple Box with Carved Stem, Beautifully Worn and Weathered wax butter most of the figures with

most of the figures with tabs added on reverse for standing them up

earlyish 1900s I would guess

) 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

It reminds me of the early years of MTV

Earliest Painted Treen Apple Box with Carved Stem, Beautifully Worn and Weathered wax butter most of the figures withAs 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