Curious Bread Shaped Carved Soapstone Slab (Warming Stone for Toasty Toast?) modern architecture About half full

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This planter has about the most beautiful form I can imagine

with something

this one a bit minty-er than arts and crafts

but he had not identified its maker

Curious Bread Shaped Carved Soapstone Slab (Warming Stone for Toasty Toast?) modern architecture About half fullI found this at an antiques show in New Hampshire neither the dealer nor I had seen another like it, and neither of us was certain of its purpose. With old scald marks on it, though, surely it was made for heating I personally like the idea that it was custom made for keeping the buttered toast (or grilled cheese sandwich!) warm! (I also really like the embedded pun a toasty piece of toast!) Maybe more likely a pocket warmer for a large pocket or to