Antique Primitive Hand-carved Double Wheat Sheaf Monogrammed Butter Mold moving arms toy The planter is in excellent

The planter is in excellent vintage condition

and how can you beat those striped socks

Great sculptural objects

Some dryness and a little cracking to the surface of the wood as pictured

This I am pretty certain is 19th century

Antique Primitive Hand-carved Double Wheat Sheaf Monogrammed Butter Mold moving arms toy The planter is in excellentFor 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,