SOLD Pure and Perfect 19th Century Sailor Made Shell Spoon orchids I love that "Hitler" is

I love that "Hitler" is written

The plate shows some scuffs and abrasions in areas as well as possibly some loss to the far right edge

The rest are later 20th century I believe

Much worn and aged as evident

and I have to guess it was part of a stove (there is a sort of hook at bottom center of the back side that perhaps latched to the stove and this piece opened out to allow for emptying ashes

SOLD Pure and Perfect 19th Century Sailor Made Shell Spoon orchids I love that "Hitler" is(First image composite showing both sides.) I paid quite a bit for this one by my standards but there was no way I could not, and I will be very glad to keep it forever to all of my sensibilities a truly perfect object, as distilled to essence as a thing could be. 19th century sailor made I do believe, with the twine wrapped tightly around the carved wooden handle (walnut I believe) like that from which sailor's macrame baskets were made. And with