Vintage could be older pair of African wooden large page turners or page openers

Vintage could be older pair of African wooden large page turners or page openers hand carved probably a fruit wood ( jacaranda) showing a man and woman kneeling probably praying very decorative 38 cm long 3 cm wide

There is such a thing as a page turner. It was used mid 1800s to (probably) early 1900 by platform performers/elocutionists/lecturers to …turn pages of what they were “reading” – although often (if not usually) the material was memorized. The book and the page turner and the lecturn were “props.”