Excellent Antique Make Do Ladle with Hall & Elton Spoon Handle large print Cut from lined paper long

Cut from lined paper long ago

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which makes the orange pop all the more

which one imagines was his or her favorite spot

seeming to evoke the skimming of the ball across the surface of a table at high speed

Excellent Antique Make Do Ladle with Hall & Elton Spoon Handle large print Cut from lined paper longA beautifully concise antique example of "make do," this is a mid 19th century Hall & Elton spoon handle that was wed (riveted) long ago to a large, shallow round bowl (looks to me like the piece was cut from a tin can then soldered to "tin" it) to make a ladle. Excellent. And useful still, though I'd be inclined to rest it on a couple of nails on the wall. Hall & Elton of Geneva, NY (distinct from Hall Elton Co of Wallingford, CT) operated just from