Long Carved Folk Art Wood Spoon with Monograms and Face, 1910 ophthomology with doors on the side

with doors on the side of one of them that slide open and closed (with nails for handles)

outlined in steel and plugged with wood

This painting

of eastern Burma/Myanmar

Such a beautiful thing

Long Carved Folk Art Wood Spoon with Monograms and Face, 1910 ophthomology with doors on the sideSatisfying form, substantial weight and nice long handle to this old hand carved spoon, but it is the details that make it: two monograms on the bowl of the spoon, the number 10 on the back of it, plus "America", a strange little alien esque face, the date 5 22 10 [1910 I'm pretty certain], various passages of cross hatching, and one more monogram on the handle. I've been paying attention to old carved spoons lately, as they're really about as central