Antique Architectural Ornament Mold: Crest and Flowers vintage celluloid egg And then hand-written on the

And then hand-written on the backside: "Susan Pendleton / Given to Olive / 1906 / on a Tuesday

but also for its lineage among what one imagines are many thousands of similar photos taken at this tree over many many years

This hand-colored copper engraving comes from Friedrich Justin Bertuch's  'Bilderbuch fur Kinder'

but this is an especially useful one--great on the counter

Antique Architectural Ornament Mold: Crest and Flowers vintage celluloid egg And then hand-written on theI see a lot of old wooden industrial molds but only occasionally do I across across ones like this, filled with a pitch wood resin mold material, and used for casting ornaments for architecture, molding and picture frames. This is the largest of several I'm listing, with a crest form set at an angle along with three different flowers, which I really love altogether for the sort of strangeness of the composition. Photographs don't quite do justice