Japanese Hand-painted Treen Nesting Eggs Set with Butterfly, c. 1920s brass cookie press I might guess 1930s-40s

I might guess 1930s-40s

1950--but none with this fantastic aqua glaze

Before there were You Tube tutorials

but I was thinking they'd be pretty great for marking a birthday--or two-- in this case with a 25 year interim

And then these incredibly piercing blue glass eyes

Japanese Hand-painted Treen Nesting Eggs Set with Butterfly, c. 1920s brass cookie press I might guess 1930s-40sI'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