Beautiful Old Wooden Measures, Presumed For Apple Sorting carved wooden gun It's a bit of a

It's a bit of a curious one

and stands up straight and sturdy on its feet

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

and a split along one edge of the base which makes it sit just off square--no real matter

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

Beautiful Old Wooden Measures, Presumed For Apple Sorting carved wooden gun It's a bit of aI 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