Carved Old Dark Wood Spoon with Wonderful Details flower frog This is a beautiful

This is a beautiful

then coated with many successive layers of lacquer

and who taught for many years at Monserrat College of Art in Beverly

South Dakota in the 1970s

The box measures 6 5/8 wide x 6 7/8 deep x 2 1/8" tall and is in very good vintage condition

Carved Old Dark Wood Spoon with Wonderful Details flower frog This is a beautifulSuch a sweet spoon. I'd probably be inclined to keep this one very near at hand, perhaps sitting in an old wooden bowl on the counter filled sea salt, so that I could use it all of the time. Hand carved and quite old I think, it's got a great shape, nice large bowl, and terrific little stars inside of squares carved in the handle, with a row of dots on either side. I think one can really viscerally feel the love and care that went into making this; so