Old Wooden Masher with Whimsically Carved Handle old north Carolina pottery with the letter and numbers

with the letter and numbers I assume referring to the bottle or jar type (and there are more handwritten notations on the back side

The box shows plenty of wear and the box top is missing one short end

but I think constitutionally a drawing

and one wooden dominoe-shaped rectangular that serves as a "plug" to keep them from rattling around in the box

Old Wooden Masher with Whimsically Carved Handle old north Carolina pottery with the letter and numbersThe smoothed bottom of this old masher shows that it was much used, and no wonder, as the interestingly carved handle, reminding me of a whimsy, provides a great grip! Another example of a utilitarian object that someone took care to make just to their liking, nice now as a sculptural one, though it could certainly be put to use again. 9 3 16" t x 1 7 8" in diameter at widest. There is one small chip to the handle as pictured, very minor, and some