Beautiful Old Wooden Measures, Presumed For Apple Sorting rustic utensils with a gorgeous turned long

with a gorgeous turned long wooden handle and blonde

which based on some research I believe dates to the 1860s or so

Super handy for enacting politically inspired puppet shows or just satisfying the desire to manipulate a despot

A few scrapes and scratches here and there

It was arranged and pressed just right and has  endured remarkably well

Beautiful Old Wooden Measures, Presumed For Apple Sorting rustic utensils with a gorgeous turned longI just think these are really beautiful objects and actually pretty handy too for measuring the diameters of smallish roundish things! I believe they were likely made for sizing and sorting apples, perhaps with the 2 inch round for crabapples, though there are some very small old heirloom varieties too. I can just picture the long ago maker using an old brass stencil wheel with paint the black numbers on them, and there's a hand written "3" on the