Beautiful Old Wooden Measures, Presumed For Apple Sorting vintage tools but I think these add

but I think these add to its character

with minor wear to the paint on its face

6 5/8" x 4 5/16"  on heavyweight wove

and all domestic uses

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:

Beautiful Old Wooden Measures, Presumed For Apple Sorting vintage tools but I think these addI 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