Beautiful Old Wooden Measures, Presumed For Apple Sorting rustic utensils which based on some research

which based on some research I believe dates to the 1860s or so

The treatment of the dog I think is especially terrific

It was arranged and pressed just right and has  endured remarkably well

snaking form looks like that of a porcelain pipe or similar--which rather amazingly he seems to suspend in air entirely by his little mouth

a granular mineral substance

Beautiful Old Wooden Measures, Presumed For Apple Sorting rustic utensils which based on some researchI 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