Lovely Hand-carved Double Sided Five Pattern Butter Mold/Stamp carved snake mask Color all the richer in

Color all the richer in person

I believe done in a combo of pencil and black crayon

Very sound and sturdy

7 pp plus one loose page

I can't get the cap off the latter

Lovely Hand-carved Double Sided Five Pattern Butter Mold/Stamp carved snake mask Color all the richer inI'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