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EAPG - Tree of Life with Hand

Currently I have 7 pieces of Hobbs, Brockunier, & Company's EAPG Tree of Life with Hand. Introduced in 1879, they are almost 150 years old (at the time of this writing). They have convoluted tree branches with multiple leaves between and amongst them. There is then a hand somewhere on the piece. On the four high standard compotes I have, the hand is on the stem beetween the bowl and the base, as is the case for the spooner, sugar bowl, and creamer in my collection. The creamer has the addition of clasped hands on arms that form the handle. And the sugar bowl has a finial that is a ball clasped by a hand. Mine have been acquired through various means. The three larger compotes came from the "wild", as it were, while shopping at antique stores and estate sales, while the smallest compote and the table set (creamer, spooner, sugar bowl) came from eBay. More information can be found here.