Wooden wedding spoon

Hand-carved wooden love or marriage spoon. Object of popular art made recently but of very good quality and which has a lovely history. In brittany until the 19th century during village meals or weddings, suitors very much in love with a young girl offered their bride an ornate wooden spoon as a token of their love, the equivalent of a marriage proposal...if the young lady accepted...they got engaged the spoon is foldable to slip it more easily into the pocket it also has a small hole to hang it on the belt the more decorated the spoon was the more skilled the young man was with his hands or if the beauty of the spoon was very refined it demonstrated the ease of its owner. Dimensions 18 length width 7 xm weight 50g.