Sweet Figurative Carved Folk Art Whimsy Spoon with Chain of Locks vintage Japanese tea caddy and have always found them

and have always found them pretty amazing

9 3/4" x 7 3/4" x 1/2" framed in the simple old white painted wood frame I found it in

image is 5 1/2" x 3 7/8"

Someone appears to have valued it enough to carve

Sweet Figurative Carved Folk Art Whimsy Spoon with Chain of Locks vintage Japanese tea caddy and have always found themThe whimsy or loving spoons one most often sees are Welsh or Scandinavian and often highly refined; Im not entirely certain the national origins of this one, but its the folkiness of it manifested in the figure and lock shaped chain links that I love (I might guess American nodding to the Scandinavian manner of decoration on the bowl and handle, but am not entirely certain..) I presume it is an upside down strawberry carved into the spoon of the