North Wales c 1850

Beech

7½” long x 2″ wide x 1″ deep

…….Caernarfonshire seems to have evolved a wooden spoon of a definite type, and the feature characteristic of this type (even shown in the love-spoon of the county) is a strengthening and ridging of the stem until it is often dolphin-shaped….

From the “Guide to the collection of Welsh Folk crafts & Industries” by Iorwerth Peate. National Museum of Wales 1935

£240