Lovely Hand-carved Double Sided Five Pattern Butter Mold/Stamp finger with wings including aces

including aces

Image size: 4" x 7"

and is easy to slide back in again

there is a small chip to the bottom right corner

super solid and sturdy and heavy (weighs about 7 1/2 pounds)

Lovely Hand-carved Double Sided Five Pattern Butter Mold/Stamp finger with wings including acesI'm not in the least an expert on butter molds and the like, but I do spend a whole lot of time looking at carvings, and think I can recognize lovely things when I see them and this, to my eye, is very much that! It's also unusual in my experience to find a number of different patterns carved in into both sides of a block as here, in an irregular configuration, almost as if practicing in advance of producing a single stamp. I take the carvings to