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The pictured item seems to be approx. 11 inches high by 13 inches wide.
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This is an egg crate with a sliding top and wooden handle that holds 180 eggs.
It is definitely an egg carrier
This reminds me of one of two things, either an antique egg carrier, or a dehydrator rack for drying fruits or vegetables. I’m leaning more toward the drying rack.
egg carrier
By the handle on top and the open slots, you can tell it’s a reproduction of an antique pizza delivery hod used in the 18th Century in Central Italy. The delivery person could carry as many as 6 fresh, hot pizzas for delivery. Though you might think the open slots would allow the pizzas for delivery to get cold on the way, the streets at that time were so narrow, and the houses so small and close together, that the delivery persona had no problem getting them delivered while still fresh and hot. Actually the slots were added intentionally to allow the wonderful aroma of fresh, hot, spicy pizzas to waft all through the streets as the the delivery persona made their way through the village, thus enticing more customers into the local pizzeria !
Bon appetito, as the French/Italians would say !
It’s a chicken egg carrier!
It is an egg carrier for flats of eggs to be taken for sale either to a store or a market. It would carry six flats of eggs with 36 eggs to a flat. When there were corner grocery stores the eggs were not refrigerated and sold be the flat or by the quantity the customer wished to buy. My grandfather owned a small chain of grocery stores and I well remember large containers of eggs for sale and these carriers as I still have one!
Antique dehydrator
It is an egg carrier. We use to fill this with eggs on the farm, and Mom would take it to the little grocery store in town and trade the eggs for groceries. There are multi layers with pressed cardboard dividers.
It’s a chicken carrier.
Spool cabinet.
Egg Carrier Each level holds an insert for 2 dozen eggs
Drying rack?
It’s an egg carrier!