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Folk Museum collection
the flat back of the basket made with horizontal ribs
When full of tomatoes they were shipped from Guernsey to the UK
53 cm width at widest point
Tied over the stern of the boat to allow seawater to run through and keep the sandeels fresh
Guernsey Tomato Basket Folk Museum collectionGuernsey Tomato Baskets were traditionally made to export tomatoes off island until about the 1930s, when non returnable wooden chip baskets took over the job. In his book Baskets of Europe Maurice Bichard explains how these baskets were made in France in huge quantities. When full of tomatoes they were shipped from Guernsey to the UK. The empty baskets were then packed together in fours and returned to the vinaries to be reused up to 15 times. These
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