Modernist Feeling 19th Century Hand-Carved Double Sided Butter Stamp with Geometric Designs German creche 5 3/4" x 4 1/8"

5 3/4" x 4 1/8"

later 19th century I believe

and I really love the fully rounded "ears" on it that really make it look just like a Mickey Mouse silhouette

The lid is slightly bent in one place

Modernist Feeling 19th Century Hand-Carved Double Sided Butter Stamp with Geometric Designs German creche 5 3/4" x 4 1/8"My first photo here is a composite showing two views of this carved stamp, a butter stamp I believe: target like concentric circles on one end, a cross hatched square on the other, and both sides tapering to the middle like an hourglass. I rarely buy a butter stamp or mold, including for having little expertise about them, but this feels completely transcendent to me, and also like a very modernist feeling carved object, which I'd be as inclined to