SOLD Charming 19th Century Hallmarked, Hand-engraved Tea Caddy Spoon boy with fish Or was its maker pleading

Or was its maker pleading to her mother to be kind to the cow

so each booklet representing 24 possible words

but I find it quite an evocative and very honest feeling thing as it is

holding a nut in its little hands

true early set

SOLD Charming 19th Century Hallmarked, Hand-engraved Tea Caddy Spoon boy with fish Or was its maker pleadingI didn't know I was looking for a tea caddy spoon, used for scooping loose leaf tea from a tea caddy into a teapot, but I came across this and fell in love with it, for the form and especially for the very folky engraving on the bowl, done I believe with hammer and graver (like a fine chisel) and which always makes me think of trench art. And that engraving happens to be very closely aligned with the engraving on a charming tole snuff box shoe also