Earlier 20th Century Japanese Painted Treen Apple with Horse Roulette Inside folk art key there are hand-written numbers on

there are hand-written numbers on each of their legs suggesting they might be two of a series made (

Beautifully carved all the way around (with such a wonderful face

There are also a number of hotels named Fregatten—perhaps this plate was made for one of those

most were made in Maine

6 3/8" diameter x 2 1/2" tall

Earlier 20th Century Japanese Painted Treen Apple with Horse Roulette Inside folk art key there are hand-written numbers onI just can't resist these treen apples, each its own thing based on when it was made and the life it has lived, with variations in size and paint too. Many housed games or miniature tea sets horse roulette is my favorite. And the one time owner of this one appears to have been French, with handwritten notes on the roulette wheel, and on the horse tokens too, declaring each to either represent rouge or noir (red or black) making it more like a game of