Kid Made Excellent Red Pottery Apple copper cup 5" long with corkscrew

5" long with corkscrew

This is an unmatched but closely related pair of Chinese porcelain ‘Kitchen Ming’ dishes

and the aces in each suit

One sees a fair number of bone dominoes sets described as "Civil War era" which are not

it would particularly have been used for polishing buttons on uniforms

Kid Made Excellent Red Pottery Apple copper cup 5" long with corkscrewIt looks from the underside that this clay apple one was made by a student in 5th grade (class 5D it seems), and it really looks like just about the perfect back to school apple to leave as a gift on the teacher's desk! Shiny glaze, which ranges from a Red Delicious sort of red to a little browner nearer the bottom, and blue green around the stem. Really good. Approx 3 5 8" in diameter x 2 3 8" tall and in great vintage condition.