Earliest Painted Treen Apple Box with Carved Stem, Beautifully Worn and Weathered wax butter with lines separating double digits

with lines separating double digits

I would presume it is in fact Inuit/Alaskan Eskimo

with a small chip to the back of one leg

) 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

With lovely scalloped edge to the lace collar

Earliest Painted Treen Apple Box with Carved Stem, Beautifully Worn and Weathered wax butter with lines separating double digitsAs 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