Yellow Stencil Painted Old Eastern Star Sign primitive spoon I’m not sure

I’m not sure

which dates to the 1880s

and certainly it lends itself to imagining life inside these cliff-top castles

I especially like that it is deeper at the bottom

Yellow Stencil Painted Old Eastern Star Sign primitive spoon I’m not sureId guess the Eastern Star here refers to the fraternal order of the Eastern Starestablished as a Masonic appendant body in 1850 and operating across some 20 countries todayand perhaps this served a sign at some masonic gathering, designating where the Eastern Stars were meant to assemble. I just love the evocativeness of the phrase though, perfectly rendered in black stenciled lettering against the perfect yellow painted ground, which makes me think