Modernist Feeling 19th Century Hand-Carved Double Sided Butter Stamp with Geometric Designs German creche complete with red anchor on

complete with red anchor on his chest and "USA" on his hat

with the numbering on the exterior fairly faded but very bright and clear on the inside

later 19th century I believe

Two oak leaves

With jointed corners

Modernist Feeling 19th Century Hand-Carved Double Sided Butter Stamp with Geometric Designs German creche complete with red anchor onMy first photo here is a composite showing two views of this carved stamp, a butter stamp I believe: target like concentric circles on one end, a cross hatched square on the other, and both sides tapering to the middle like an hourglass. I rarely buy a butter stamp or mold, including for having little expertise about them, but this feels completely transcendent to me, and also like a very modernist feeling carved object, which I'd be as inclined to