Fantastic Old Handmade Apple Picking Tool with Gripping Lever Chinese box Heavy tin is in good

Heavy tin is in good shape

matching cards to the personalities and (pre)occupations of recipients

The stone is a beautiful deep marbled green

and the sweet story of a Jacques and Marie escaping to the the beach on a hot July day in Paris

Fantastic Old Handmade Apple Picking Tool with Gripping Lever Chinese box Heavy tin is in goodI really love this one, found yesterday in New Hampshire on the border of Vermont the singular creation of a farmer I'm sure, and which certainly appears to have led a long and full life plucking apples from trees, or at least that is what I believe it was devised to do! The "basket" is formed of finger like loops of very heavy wire, with thinner wire woven between them like in a very lyrical sort of way! These are tethered to the scrap wood handle