Beautiful Old Wooden Measures, Presumed For Apple Sorting vintage tools The handwritten text below the

The handwritten text below the drawing is a (translated) excerpt from a verse of "Auld Lang Syne" a Scots-language poem written by Robert Burns in 1788:

with minor wear to the paint on its face

indigenous birds and insects

As a Mainer

this is the first set I've ever seen that includes musical instruments: a trumpet

Beautiful Old Wooden Measures, Presumed For Apple Sorting vintage tools The handwritten text below theI 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