That's for throwing water onto the stones on the sauna oven.
With its varnished finish (according to [link|http://www.spasandtubs.com/Finnleo/sauna_access.html|http://www.spasandtubs.com/Finnleo/sauna_access.html]), it is, as you say, not quite what Andrew is looking for. The [link|http://www.spasandtubs.com/Finnleo/jpgs/ladle14.jpg|other one] would probably be a better bet -- it looks completely untreated, from the picture -- although that, too, has a bit too straight a handle. (And it's also generally pretty clumsy and ugly.)
[link|mailto:MyUserId@MyISP.CountryCode|Christian R. Conrad]
(I live in Finland, and my e-mail in-box is at the Saunalahti company.)
Yes Mr. Garrison, genetic engineering lets us correct God's horrible, horrible mistakes, like German people. - [link|http://maxpages.com/southpark2k/Episode_105|Mr. Hat]