Fantastic Old Handmade Apple Picking Tool with Gripping Lever Chinese box The stone is a beautiful

The stone is a beautiful deep marbled green

and perhaps the perfect gift for shoe hound--or an avid walker

among many others

thin leather case

diameter x 2 3/8" thick

Fantastic Old Handmade Apple Picking Tool with Gripping Lever Chinese box The stone is a beautifulI 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