Fruit-gathering basket

Fruit gathering basket, brown with white handle. Used in Eaton Bray and Totternhoe areas for prune picking. Its retail price in 1949 was six shillings and sixpence.
Diameter at top 14½"
Diameter at base 9½"
Height 11½"
Height with handle 15½"

Makers James Robinson, Leighton Buzzard
Luton Museum - The Bagshawe Collection
Catalogue number: BL/9/97/49