Antique Primitive Hand-carved Double Wheat Sheaf Monogrammed Butter Mold moving arms toy This I am pretty certain

This I am pretty certain is 19th century

award it as a trophy

with some scattered smudges

Some dryness and a little cracking to the surface of the wood as pictured

it places him in Ogdensburg

Antique Primitive Hand-carved Double Wheat Sheaf Monogrammed Butter Mold moving arms toy This I am pretty certainFor 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,