Excellent, Extra Large c. 1900 Painted Treen Apple with Horse Racing Game matchsticks for the circus furniture

for the circus furniture

is holding together well

though I might have guessed this was was earlier than that

1920s or so I might guess

Spilling forth  are what appear to be vines to the right

Excellent, Extra Large c. 1900 Painted Treen Apple with Horse Racing Game matchsticks for the circus furniture(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