SOLD Charming 19th Century Hallmarked, Hand-engraved Tea Caddy Spoon interlocking carving and this is a beauty—as

and this is a beauty—as simple and honest as can be

and that these are made

at the age of 19

is that Rabin did not begin painting until he was 70 (with paints left over from a paint by numbers kit)

SOLD Charming 19th Century Hallmarked, Hand-engraved Tea Caddy Spoon interlocking carving and this is a beauty—asI 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