Beautiful Old Wooden Measures, Presumed For Apple Sorting carved wooden gun Best of all are Skeaping's

Best of all are Skeaping's graceful diagrams and beautiful full fledged drawings

is an ophthalmic instrument used to assess the shape of the anterior surface of the cornea: a series of concentric rings is projected onto the cornea and their reflection viewed by the examiner through a small hole in the centre of the disk

The legs are attached with three nails each

and stands up straight and sturdy on its feet

The features on his face were carved in relief

Beautiful Old Wooden Measures, Presumed For Apple Sorting carved wooden gun Best of all are Skeaping'sI 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