SOLD Charming 19th Century Hallmarked, Hand-engraved Tea Caddy Spoon boy with fish ink and watercolor and a

ink and watercolor and a little gouache too I believe

especially in this wide chain link collar

this one the work of young Nancy (b

holding a nut in its little hands

but I find it quite an evocative and very honest feeling thing as it is

SOLD Charming 19th Century Hallmarked, Hand-engraved Tea Caddy Spoon boy with fish ink and watercolor and aI 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