Japanese Hand-painted Treen Nesting Eggs Set with Butterfly, c. 1920s doodles and will never pass them

and will never pass them by if I can help it

and believe he dates to the earlyish 20th century

Aside from missing bit along front bottom edge

but clearly they knew how to paint

Japanese Hand-painted Treen Nesting Eggs Set with Butterfly, c. 1920s doodles and will never pass themI've had just a couple of sets of Japanese wooden nesting eggs before and, as with treen apples, also made in Japan and to which they are close kin, I always keep an eye out for them, though they are rarer than apples to find. C. 1920s I believe, with the shells of each egg progressively thinner as they get smaller; rare to find a set of these with all of the eggs in tact! (And indeed, one half of the smallest here was found taped together so I