Lovely Hand-carved Double Sided Five Pattern Butter Mold/Stamp finger with wings and can just imagine Luisa

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

there is a small chip to the bottom right corner

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 and can just imagine LuisaI'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