Modernist Feeling 19th Century Hand-Carved Double Sided Butter Stamp with Geometric Designs victorian embroidery this is a piece that

this is a piece that I think only  becomes richer and more affecting the more time one spends with it

I also begin to wonder whether the person behind the camera was in fact thinking about sequence

6 1/2 inches at widest diameter

Feels as true as anything I've seem in a long time

I know that this decoy came from the Chesapeake Bay area

Modernist Feeling 19th Century Hand-Carved Double Sided Butter Stamp with Geometric Designs victorian embroidery this is a piece thatMy first photo here is a composite showing two views of this carved stamp, a butter stamp I believe: target like concentric circles on one end, a cross hatched square on the other, and both sides tapering to the middle like an hourglass. I rarely buy a butter stamp or mold, including for having little expertise about them, but this feels completely transcendent to me, and also like a very modernist feeling carved object, which I'd be as inclined to