Perfect Old Turned and Painted Apple Box darning I am not sure

I am not sure

Soulful as well as stoic though

which infamously sank during the Portland Gale blizzard of 1898

which immediately came to mind when I came across this etching

Hook at top for hanging

Perfect Old Turned and Painted Apple Box darning I am not sureMy love for these turned and painted wooden apple boxes will never die, and this is really a nice one. These were made in Japan for the Western market, beginning in the late 19th c. I believe, and often housed miniature tea sets or roulette style games and the like this one just the spinner for a horse racing game, chips and ball long gone (but it's cool how that spinner mounts perfectly on the interior spike of the apple's stem ). A fairly large and