More Turned and Painted Wooden Apples - Sold Individually painted wood boat to ensure they are shepherded

to ensure they are shepherded into the future one way or another

with stripes on the figure suggestive of a soccer (football) player

and of interest at least as much for what they reveal about the painter as the subject

and all of which were fiercely bidded  upon at auction

More Turned and Painted Wooden Apples - Sold Individually painted wood boat to ensure they are shepherdedApple A and C sold. I've become pretty enamored of these turned and painted wooden apples made in Japan for the Western market which often housed roulette style horse racing games or miniature wooden tea sets, which these likely did, but are now empty. The earliest examples of these date to the late 19th century, but I would guess these are probably 1940s or so. Terrific gifts for the apple of one's eye or one's favorite teacher! Sold individually,