# Wooden spoon, worn to an angle

> Stirred left-handed, judging by the wear.

https://vitrine.themes.dev/collection/wooden-spoon/

- Made by: Probably home made
- Date: About 1940
- Material: Beech
- Size: 31 cm long
- Cost new: Nothing
- Came from: Dorothy Merrin’s house, 2009
- On view: The kitchen, in the jar by the range

Somebody stirred with this spoon every day for decades, always against the same side of the pan. The bowl is worn flat on its right, which means a left-handed cook, and the only left-handed Merrin we know of was Ada.

It is the object visitors most often ask to hold. They can’t, but the library of things lends a new one, which is not the same thing at all.