Anthropomorphic Old Scraper antique candy container featuring some pretty great photographs

featuring some pretty great photographs and diagrams

Losses as documented but overall good condition

I'd set it on an open shelf so that I could just enjoy looking at it

with the name of its maker

with this elegantly shaped

Anthropomorphic Old Scraper antique candy container featuring some pretty great photographsLooks like an alligator head to me, that has just snapped its jaws tightly closed, or perhaps the head of a snake, severed from its body. I love an old scraping tool, but even more so a good found face, and this one is equally evocative and I think quite empathetic from both sides. 6 7 8" l x 3 5 8" w x 1 1 2" d with an iron blade and nice patina of use.