Mold, Butter
- Object Name:
- Mold, Butter
- Object ID:
- 1972.519.29
- Description:
- Butter Print. Round. Turned-wood made from medium-brown, fine-grained wood. Center of wood growth and center of turning are not the same. Rounded knob handle tapers to short, fat stem which flares out to a rounded, slightly flattened disc. Turning tool marks on top of disc and on knob. On bottom is design of two concentric rings around edge. Small chipped carving or ridge between rings. At top of design are two horizontal leaves with some flourishes between and under them. There is a similar design at bottom of disc. Three lines of carved upper case serif text: "MAPLE / GROVE / FARM". By the "E" in GROVE is a carved leaf and stem that goes upward and horizontally under word "MAPLE"; it then circles around the end of "G" and goes horizontally from "GROVE". It then turns downward and goes horizontally under "M" and "R", where it ends in the aforementioned double-leaf design. Some small chip-carved flourishes along stem
- Material:
- Wood
- Dimensions:
- H-2.4 Dia-4.4 inches
- Credit Line:
- New Hampshire Historical Society Collection
- Subjects:
- Butter
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