Fantastic Old Handmade Apple Picking Tool with Gripping Lever glass and leather flask I grew up playing cribbage

I grew up playing cribbage and think it (or dominoes

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

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

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

where if arranged a certain way they appear as if to be spooning

Fantastic Old Handmade Apple Picking Tool with Gripping Lever glass and leather flask I grew up playing cribbageI 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