MADAM – In ATG No 2269, Duke’s advert shows a ‘rare Spanish engraved steel incense ladle’. There is further mention of this in ATG No 2270, p46.
I purchased an almost identical item in Tripoli, a coastal town north of Beirut. The dealer I bought it from described it as a ‘Bedou’ coffee bean roaster (everything offered to Europeans is Bedouin, Saracen or Crusader). Lending weight to this description was the large wooden pestle and mortar offered with the spoon, that the dealer said was used to pound the cooked beans.
Sadly, I was running short of money so I did not buy the mortar.