Beautifully carved 19th century Welsh beech “dolphin” spoon.

Carnarfonshshire mid 19th century

7½” long / 19cm long

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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