Excellent, Extra Large c. 1900 Painted Treen Apple with Horse Racing Game hopi katchina Nice and big

Nice and big

1920s-30s I think

The fur for the eyebrows

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

I think it is quite a wonderful little thing

Excellent, Extra Large c. 1900 Painted Treen Apple with Horse Racing Game hopi katchina Nice and big(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