Fantastic Old Handmade Apple Picking Tool with Gripping Lever glass and leather flask but not too heavy to

but not too heavy to hang easily)--quite substantial in size

Visible image: 18 3/4" x 11 3/4"

around the edges)

This is a 19th century Chinese painting executed in gouache on pith paper--a type of paper (resembling rice paper) that came into use in China in the 1820s (reaching its heyday in the 1830s and 40s) as a means to satisfy the increasing demand for small

reiterated with hand-written price stickers on the back

Fantastic Old Handmade Apple Picking Tool with Gripping Lever glass and leather flask but not too heavy toI 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