How were cranberry scoops used?
Cranberry scoops were introduced in the 1850’s as an aid in the manual picking of cranberries. The first cranberry scoops were wooden baskets with comb-like wooden teeth that would pull the berries off the vines into the basket. Antique cranberry scoops are often sold online, and there are companies that sell reproductions to use as decorative magazine racks. If you enter the phrase “cranberry scoop” into a search engine, you should be able to find an image fairly quickly.
