SOLD Pure and Perfect 19th Century Sailor Made Shell Spoon orchids I can't even imagine completing

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

The rest are later 20th century I believe

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

Much worn and aged as evident

this is an 1845 copy of "The Riddler" published by G

SOLD Pure and Perfect 19th Century Sailor Made Shell Spoon orchids I can't even imagine completing(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