Gentle Harvester
Details
Categories | A Year On the Farm |
Theme(s) | Farming and agriculture |
Collection | Harvesting Objects |
Date | |
Object number | MERL 60/143 |
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- Description
When placed on a long pole this fruit picker extended the user’s reach. They could then retrieve apples, pears or plums without bruising them. The ingenious design was devised by William Penn Ltd, a company that offered solutions to some of life’s most pressing challenges, such as the ‘awl-you-need’ leather stitcher and ‘so-easy’ seed sower.