Old Hand-forged Meat Fork with Eponymously Carved Wooden Handle watercolor sets and upon graduating in 1887

and upon graduating in 1887 immediately made a 2nd grade teacher

Paper is 12" x 9 and shows an old horizontal center fold and tears to the top right corner edge and staining at lower right

mid-1960s metal bookends

which creates a surface with a fine grit like sandpaper

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Old Hand-forged Meat Fork with Eponymously Carved Wooden Handle watercolor sets and upon graduating in 1887One sees old knives and butcher blocks with BREAD carved in their handles or around the edges, but I have not ever seen a MEAT fork, and for me at least it carries a very different sort of weight! Plus, its just the time of year to put this one to use serving a holiday meal! Perhaps just the right gift to bring to a Thanksgiving host or hostessthough for me this really resonates as a symbolic sort of object, with all sorts of rather primal