Georgian-style English Cheese Knife

Called "cheese scoop", this cheese knife has an ivory handle and a curved spade end; A push release mechanism and "push release" is responsible for releasing the famous blue cheese stilton after having taken it from the "wheel" (25 cm high and 15 cm in diameter for 4 to 5 kg!) . Cousin of our Bresse, Auvergne and Haut Jura blues, the famous English blue has been served since the beginning of the 18th century in an inn near Melton Mowbray, in Leichestershire; On the way of stagecoaches, it became "famous" throughout Great Britain . Still today, it is served with celery at Christmas meal and it is customary to dig the cheese with the spoon and fill its piece with porto, eight days before Merry Christmas, between turkey and pudding. Object in good condition except for two restored slots on the handle. Free shipping for France.