Old Turned Wooden Apple with Horse Roulette Spinner Inside couple on cliff The handwritten text covering every

The handwritten text covering every unstitched inch of this looks to me to be German

making great use of the grain of the wood

to me it speaks all about absence and also anticipation--of the specific pipe that once lay there (and was dumped into the bowl) and of the one it now awaits

Kinsey's Toy Building Blocks in the collection of the Henry Ford Museum

1950s Red Devil Coal bag produced by the Wells Coal Company

Old Turned Wooden Apple with Horse Roulette Spinner Inside couple on cliff The handwritten text covering everyI'll never get over my love for turned and painted wooden apple boxes like this one. These were made in Japan for the Western market, beginning in the late 19th c., and often housed miniature tea sets, or roulette style games this one still holding the spinner and ball for a horse racing game. The exterior shows general wear and one small ding to the wood, but to my mind one should pluck every one of these one finds and build an orchard of a