Antique Primitive Hand-carved Double Wheat Sheaf Monogrammed Butter Mold antique display shelf 1 5/8" deep and overall

1 5/8" deep and overall in very good condition

a pretty satisfying object

and this is the last of the drawings I pulled from a wonderful notebook by Elmer S

I found this terrific "T" along with a "B" and an "R" (listed separately) packed together in an envelope at an antique shop and just fell in love with them

Antique Primitive Hand-carved Double Wheat Sheaf Monogrammed Butter Mold antique display shelf 1 5/8" deep and overallFor a long time I never paid much attention to carved butter molds, cookie molds, etc. but now that I've started looking more closely at them, I'm finding a whole new realm of beautiful, and ofter very singular, carved wooden objects to admire and enjoy, this one a case in point. The wheat sheaf was certainly a common motif for butter molds, but this beautiful antique double sheaf example is unusual for showing one pointing one way and one the other,