SOLD Pure and Perfect 19th Century Sailor Made Shell Spoon orchids Opening 8 3/4" x 5

Opening 8 3/4" x 5 3/4"

I like that it looks like a cross

which was stamped "Made in Occupied Japan"

I can't even imagine completing this sort of work in high school

The rest are later 20th century I believe

SOLD Pure and Perfect 19th Century Sailor Made Shell Spoon orchids Opening 8 3/4" x 5(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