The popular custom of giving a silver spoon as a Baptism gift is a deep-rooted tradition that dates back to the Middle Ages. The custom was popular as it was believed the spoon symbol attracted a destiny of wealth, health and prosperity when it was given . It was also like the evil eye of the middle east and deeply respected for its magical influece keeping away poverty and misfortune.
"Born with a silver spoon in one's mouth" is a metaphor signifying the baby has been born to a wealthy or well to do family. It was also given by less wealthy guardians, relatives or friends to the new born baby as it was believed the pure silver spoon was a symbol that could manifest or encourage prosperity to reverse engineer the family's economic condition and as such has for many centuries been a symbol of wealth and comfort.
As a unique and rare present for any baby shower, christening or babtism. We have specially made a spoon of 99.9 pure silver also known as fine silver and not the much cheaper and inappropriate sterling silver alloy spoons. Sterling silver is erroneously passed on as silver but is in fact a mixed metal silver-copper alloy with a high percentage of silver but is still a popular mixed alloy metal.
Pure silver is also much more tarnish resistant and softer than sterling silver alloy.
Pure silver is also a symbol of the Moon and is anti-bacterial.
The spoon is 4 inches long and weighs just over 26 grams. The neck of the spoon is 2.3 millimeters thick.
Product code: Popular Silver Spoon