SOLD Pure and Perfect 19th Century Sailor Made Shell Spoon orchids The plate shows some scuffs

The plate shows some scuffs and abrasions in areas as well as possibly some loss to the far right edge

Much worn and aged as evident

8 3/4” x 5 3/8” x 2”

I like that it looks like a cross

which was stamped "Made in Occupied Japan"

SOLD Pure and Perfect 19th Century Sailor Made Shell Spoon orchids The plate shows some scuffs(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