Francie Philbrook's Large Red Treen Apple with Horse Roulette miniature pottery shoe with a small tear to

with a small tear to the top edge of the spine

You know how much I love fine examples of early penmanship with fancy fraktur lettering

I am not certain of their age as I can't find another set like them anywhere

2” x 2 1/2”

and then a plug-shaped piece as the terminus

Francie Philbrook's Large Red Treen Apple with Horse Roulette miniature pottery shoe with a small tear toAnother week, another old treen apple, because I love them and because each one is really its own thing, varying in size and age and paint and contents and the life it has led. This one appears to have spent some time in the possession of a young Francie Philbrook, who wrote her name on one of the five gaming chips for the horse roulette game housed inside. It's a fairly early one, and a nice large one, with ball still resting in the roulette spinner.