Beautiful Old Wooden Measures, Presumed For Apple Sorting rustic utensils The treatment of the dog

The treatment of the dog I think is especially terrific

but would guess it dates from the the 1930s or 40s

with a gorgeous turned long wooden handle and blonde

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

a granular mineral substance

Beautiful Old Wooden Measures, Presumed For Apple Sorting rustic utensils The treatment of the dogI 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