Featured Wooden Spoon Display with Stamped Metal Decoration

Not exactly furniture, but I don't know where else to put this. Has anyone seen anything like it? It is coming up at a local auction. No photo of the back available. There is a chance, I suppose, that it was not originally made for spoons.

 

Are those metal rectangles in front of the spoons? And do the rectangles have a way to hold paper labels?

 

looks like something you'd find at a boarding house........every kid gets their own porridge spoon..!

please sir.....can I have some more ???

 

Interesting. Maybe that bird section is part of a emblem or symbol?

 

That is a good question. I have not seen it in person. I have enlarged a view of the rectangles, and it looks like they are simply stamped decoration, not meant to hold labels that slide in.

 

I'd call it Kitchen Folk Art.

 

Certainly looks ‘once-off’

 

I like that.

 

This similar one says that it's stamped/impressed Made in Mexico on the side.


https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/mexico-folk-art-punched-tin-wooden-1914976360

 

Mexico and Quaker, eh? Very odd.

 

I don't know, there seem to be a lot of birds in Mexican art

 

Wonderful find! I guess you can't argue with "Made in Mexico" stamped on the side.

 

Good find.Well done!

 

There are many Mennonites in Mexico. This may explain the look of it.

 

That and all metal was imported at that point, all tin anyway. My guess is it's a mix.

 

Thank you all for your input. Very helpful.

 

“If you don't eat your meat, you can't have any pudding! How can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat!”

 

Just for the record, it went for $71 + commission. I went to see it. It had some condition issues (some warping and separation of parts), and the spoons did not appear to be original to the set. It was not marked/stamped as being of Mexican origin, though based on the examples I looked at (with your help) it was in the tradition of Spanish and Mexican spoon racks.

 

I like it, but the price seems high, given the condition you mention.

 

Two people both went after it because Grandma had one? My guess anyway.