Japanese Hand-painted Treen Nesting Eggs Set with Butterfly, c. 1920s 50 ft measuring tape Box measures 7 3/4" x

Box measures 7 3/4" x 4 1/2" x 1 1/4"

then page after page of good (and pretty) words getting progressively longer and more sophisticated as one goes along

the closest I've found (and which I'd guess this in fact is) was made by Ferdinand Strauss

Great and striking objects

Japanese Hand-painted Treen Nesting Eggs Set with Butterfly, c. 1920s 50 ft measuring tape Box measures 7 3/4" xI'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