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Butter Mold

Collection Type

  • Cooking equipment

Date

1800-1850

GUSN

GUSN-2543

Description

Wooden butter stamp incised on top with vines; on mold surface, with swirl pattern surrounded with notches; copper handle.

Details

Descriptive Terms

butter molds
cookware
carving (processes)
copper (metal)
wood (plant material)
vines
Treen
Wood
Copper
Carved
Vine
Mold, Butter

Associated Building

Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

1 1/2 (H), 3 1/4 (diameter) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little

Accession Number

1991.672

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