Lovely Hand-carved Double Sided Five Pattern Butter Mold/Stamp finger with wings Excellent condition with no chips

Excellent condition with no chips

and with some supplies found still in it

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

there is a small chip to the bottom right corner

Lovely Hand-carved Double Sided Five Pattern Butter Mold/Stamp finger with wings Excellent condition with no chipsI'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