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The pictured item seems to be approx. 21 1/2 inches wide by 19 inches tall by 12 inches deep.
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It is a harvest tool – a cranberry skimmer, hand-carved wood with metal nails and strips, used in cranberry bogs for raking cranberries.
I’m a day late. Y’all beat me to it-cranberry scoop.
I am a native New Englander, living in Rhode Island and Massachusetts. This is a cranberry scoop. I have seen many, and I consider them quite beautiful sculpture. Nowadays they have often been used as magazine holders on the floor (with the addition of another piece of wood on the bottom to hold then upright, hung on the wall for the same purpose, and also hung on the wall with a light inside for indirect lighting. Although mechanical pickers are now used in the commercial bogs, the Wampanoags still use them on the small scattered cranberry bogs.
Bruce Blackwell
It looks like a loom for weaving
It is a cranberry scoop.
It could be a cranberry scoop but they used a device very similar to harvest blue grass seed. I don’t remember what it was called. They were one handed and smaller and this appears to be two handed. What is the tile in the bottom of it for or is that the floor it is setting on.
I’m guessing it’s a cranberry scoop, in Alaska I use something quite similar to harvest blueberries. But the brush of the blueberries would be a little rough on this wooden device. I understand cranberries are harvested when they flood the fields, causing the cranberries to float. Is wide as this thing is it’s probably for you scooping cranberries from the water. I’ve never seen anybody flood blueberry fields. But in Alaska they were all wild. I remember on Caribou Hunt’s each fall, blueberries were so thick on the ground that walking through the brush my shoes would turn blue every year. What carrying a pack I could swipe at a bush I was passing, blow the leaves from my hand and have six or seven berries to throw in my mouth. That’s pretty thick for in the wild. The harvesting rake I used was a metal can with a handle on it and metal fingers like a leaf rake on the front. Nowhere near this size. I know I’m a little long-winded, but this thing is cool I’ve never seen one
Vintage magazine rack
It’s a blueberry picker or a scooper. The blueberry bushes in Maine or low-lying bushes. My dad used one of these to pick blueberries when he was young. We went back a few years ago before he passed, and showed me his dad’s farm and explained how they pick the blueberries with the boxes with the long forks. 💙
It does look very much like a cranberry scoop. My husband is a cranberry farmer and we’re familiar with these vintage items locally ( and thankful we no longer have to use them!). But…. it is different in that the slats on the outside aren’t usually there. Not sure about those. Will be interesting to see the answer!
It’s a cranberry scoop. I had one very much like this.
Berry picker (I’ve seen it used for blueberries but any groundcover/low plant w/berries). It also looks like it was made from parts of my old table loom. Yankee thrift?😉
A cranberry harvester.
It is an implement used to harvest blueberries.
This one is easy – I have one. It is a scoop for picking cranberries.
Cranberry scoop.
It’s a cranberry scoop used to harvest ripe cranberries from the bogs.
Some sort of a knitter/sorter of wool or something in the sewing/thread/wool use. Very strange, I don’t see how the handle works, or if the base is see-through? Is that the floor underneath?
It is a cranberry scoop
Looks like a device for picking something off a plant, like berries, maybe? I could have used something like this to pick sweet gum pods off our lawn.