Antique Primitive Hand-carved Double Wheat Sheaf Monogrammed Butter Mold glass tube lid closes flush and hook

lid closes flush and hook is in place

containing three bone dice inside which would be used for the popular European game 421 (google it to find the rules)

one can just feel these things

who attended the School for Arts and Crafts at Essen in 1921 and the Dusseldorf Academy from 1922 to 1923

Antique Primitive Hand-carved Double Wheat Sheaf Monogrammed Butter Mold glass tube lid closes flush and hookFor 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,