SOLD Curious Old Hand-carved Bible-Shaped Wooden Mold antique green paint with a wonderfully expressive face

with a wonderfully expressive face

which suggests use as a letter opener or page turner

but is decorated with fantastic hand-tooled patterns (I assume tooled

This hide shows some age but is this mask is in very good clean condition

deer are about 5" tall

SOLD Curious Old Hand-carved Bible-Shaped Wooden Mold antique green paint with a wonderfully expressive faceAdmittedly, I don't know much about old carved molds, and am not someone who gets especially excited about butter molds or gingerbread molds, etc., but I did get excited and curious about this old book shaped mold, with a framed cross carved into both faces of it to define it as a bible. There are five carved and interlocking pieces here the two faces, a carved spine of the same height, and then two shorter pieces which fit into the top and bottom