The Young Auctioneer, 1884 Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co (A&P) Large Trade Card house numbers sign Approx 10” square

Approx 10” square

The primary glaze is a rich mustard-y yellow-brown

and one could use it as a tasting or a serving spoon--or

There is light wear visible around the lip in the form of some very tiny stains and perhaps a few very tiny nicks (noticeable only upon very close inspection)

likely 1880s or so

The Young Auctioneer, 1884 Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co (A&P) Large Trade Card house numbers sign Approx 10” squareToo fun to resist, and I thought surely this one would make the perfect gift for the runner of an auction house, or for someone regularly on the other end of things, watching things as they are going going gone! I really love the increasingly distressed face of this child, and it seems to be quite a rare one an early trade card for the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co, which would go on top become A&P. (Founded in 1859 as "Gilman & Company", within a