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1890 Handmade Split Wood True Maine Garden Basket
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Antique traditional small Maine farm garden basket constructed of split wood splints that have been cut, bent and woven to form a small square & handled basket of crude loosely woven square overlap construction with it's original whittled wooden handle and retaining it's original old dry surface, as found. Maine , 1890's. Guaranteed old and original; this is not a fake or reproduction. Actual weight 3/4 lbs. 8 9" across handle, 10" opposite width long by 9 ½" tall to the handle top. Antique traditional small Maine farm garden basket constructed of split wood splints that have been cut, bent and woven to form a small square & handled basket of crude loosely woven square overlap construction with it's original whittled wooden handle and retaining it's original old dry surface, as found . We are listing primitives we found in the woodshed, an attached building that had become a catch-all storage repository for âe¦ Maine farm primitivesâe¦ beginning in the 1920's. Obsolete wood and farm wooden items were put in the shed with the firewood to, evidently, be burned. They never burned them and although t was a lot of "scrap wood", some of the things we found are pretty nice. This is a Maine farm garden basket. Crudeâe¦ to some. A life line to others. The two never meet. Except for, perhaps, through this cataloger. I use word crude to describe this basket. I use the Maine garden basket. I first used the Maine garden basket, by myself, by the time I was seven or eight. Between three and four-thirty in the afternoon the "vegetable" "for supper" is picked. By age seven I was sent to do this. One doing this carries THE Maine garden basket the home uses to the garden, picks the "vegetable", occasionally plural, washes them outside if necessary, puts them back in the basket and takes the basket to the kitchen. Everyday, at the same time, from late June until late October. Then the basket is "hung up", usually in the shed, until "next summer". The same basket is usedâe¦ forever. Three, four and even five generations use the same basket at the same time everyday. To no surprise some of these basket may be very old andâe¦ are usually in rough condition ("damaged"). This last; "rough condition" is better understood to be THE CONDITION especially if one wants or has a âe¦real Maine garden basket. I know this because I have used these baskets all my life, will use one today to pick my peas for dinner. I know this because I have bought and sold an indefinite number of these true Maine farm jewels; enough of them to consider myself, inclusive of my actual continuing usage experience, an EXPERT on Maine garden baskets. I know the "exactly". What is the "exactly"? It is, when one is eight years old, taking the family's garden basket full of fresh peas up under the hidden shade of the apple tree and shelling those peas into a bowl for dinner while eating as many of the raw peas as one feels they can get away with without being spied doing this and then bringing the modest remains to the kitchen with the empty basket, saying nothing and having the people in the kitchen say nothing too, day after day, for a decade (age 16ish) of one's life. And again, I will use our Maine garden basket to pick peas for our supper today just like I have all my life. Very good as found condition consideringâe¦. that this is a âe¦not that earlyâe¦ though good and oldâe¦ truly properly beat-up garden usage rough inclusive of the bleaching to the splint from wet vegetables. AND considering it's having the aforementioned "crude" square woven construction the makes the basket look like it was, as it was, homemade by someone who did not make many baskets, made this one basket pretty good and then used this one basketâe¦ foreverâe¦ so that it is "damaged" from decades of going to the garden. This aura of damage is NOT shabby chic. It is THE WAY the real Maine garden basket IS meaning it looks like your grandmother used it TOO. All of this now said, this basket is missing half of it's original top rim wrap. They are always mi... 
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