This spoon is from the official flatware set made for Nazi leader Dr. Hans Frank (1900-1946). Frank was Hitler's personal lawyer prior to 1933 and later became Reich Minister of Justice. After he fell out of favor with Hitler, he was sent to Poland and served as Governor General. Frank was hanged as a war criminal in 1946.

The initials on the spoon may belong to Reverend Nathan Bangs.

Marrow extracted from the soft cavity at the center of beef bones was a prized delicacy from the late seventeenth century through the Victorian era. During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, refined dining necessitated the use of specialized silver implements to remove and eat the savory contents. The first utensil designed for this purpose was the marrow spoon, with a conventional bowl at one end and a handle in the form of a narrow channel for scooping out the marrow. During the early eighteenth century, the implement evolved into the more specialized marrow scoop, with opposing channels in two widths for extracting the jelly from bones of different sizes. This example, with both channels facing up, is typical of most scoops, but in some the channels are oriented in opposite directions.