Antique Primitive Hand-carved Double Wheat Sheaf Monogrammed Butter Mold antique display shelf Executed on sturdy cardstock/board

Executed on sturdy cardstock/board

and I believe here at the child's feet is a tiny little lock

Iconic and I think quite awesome

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

branches of leaves and blossoms gracefully arching above the against the sky and clouds

Antique Primitive Hand-carved Double Wheat Sheaf Monogrammed Butter Mold antique display shelf Executed on sturdy cardstock/boardFor 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,