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

including aces

to think of this

and with some supplies found still in it

and can just imagine Luisa returning home from her adventures and sitting at her desk drawing then carefully pasting the label on this

6 3/8" x 4 3/16

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