Group of Four Painted Treen Apples (Mixed Set) paper clip but of course also great

but of course also great just set on a shelf--I'd say with the tail set either to the heart or to the top position

I'm forever on the hunt for Victorian pressed sea moss albums--harder and harder to find

which I think maybe identifies it as an Iver Johnson

and quite finely made

tree and who knows what all

Group of Four Painted Treen Apples (Mixed Set) paper clip but of course also greatThis is a mixed lot of painted treen apples, varying somewhat in age, but I found them together like this, and they're perfectly progressive in scale, and it gives me no end of pleasure to look at them lined up in a row, so here they are as a set of four. Photos give a good sense of each one including (fairly minor) imperfections: there is one hairline crack to the upper half of the largest one on one side, and the third has lost its stem (I've