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

The stone is a beautiful deep marbled green

17” t x 10 1/2” w x 6 1/8” d

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

perhaps originally an Etruscan colony

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