Cozy Feeling Antique Hand-carved Maple Sugar Mold With Teapot and Spoon Japanese hand thrown plate so here is this one

so here is this one

and it's good for the brain to think in patterns

1805-10 due to the mix of handwriting styles—make it all the more curious

the result of a fungus

I shot in two different lighting situations

Cozy Feeling Antique Hand-carved Maple Sugar Mold With Teapot and Spoon Japanese hand thrown plate so here is this oneThis is a wonderfully folky old hand carved mold, for maple sugar I believe, and one which appears to have been used many many times. I fell in love with the carved teapot on it immediately about as cozy feeling a carving as I've ever seen, made all the more so by the super warm dry patina on the wood, pine I believe. It really feels as if that spoon and kettle have existed forever, like paintings on the walls of Lascaux! Very charming. 8 1 4" x 4 5