SOLD Charming 19th Century Hallmarked, Hand-engraved Tea Caddy Spoon rebus paper roll This lovely old one

This lovely old one

and what a marvelous photograph whatever the case

Oil on cardboard and kind of shiny

natural gray hair (animal or human I'm honestly not certain) pulled through a woven fabric pate of sorts

SOLD Charming 19th Century Hallmarked, Hand-engraved Tea Caddy Spoon rebus paper roll This lovely old oneI 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