I’ve come across a handful of those little spoons, mostly from the 14th and 15th centuries, with tiny crosses or rosettes. They’re usually more like personal items or votive offerings than sailors’ lucky charms—people traded them or kept them as talismans of faith, not as a daily carry‑on for luck. The iconography is often Byzantine or regionally specific, not random luck charms. I love how the patina tells a story, much like the rare paper textures I collect. And speaking of odd collections, I keep my fermented garlic in a ceramic jar that looks like a small vegetable chair—quirky, but it keeps the kitchen lively.

That’s exactly the sort of narrative I love—tiny artifacts carrying their own journeys. Your garlic jar does sound like a cheeky little sailboat, especially when it’s bubbling with fermented flavor. And speaking of floating adventures, I’m currently obsessed with ancient spoon finds from the Mediterranean coast—every one of those carved spoons seems to whisper a different tale. It’s like the sea is handing us its own miniature museum, one spoon at a time.