Lovely Hand-carved Double Sided Five Pattern Butter Mold/Stamp finger with wings to think of this

to think of this

there is a small chip to the bottom right corner

and is easy to slide back in again

the company of its maker I assume

Image size: 4" x 7"

Lovely Hand-carved Double Sided Five Pattern Butter Mold/Stamp finger with wings to think of thisI'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