Antique Architectural Ornament Mold: Leaf pottery apple which may once have read

which may once have read "CHINA" backwards (now it reads "HINA")

She is carved from one piece of wood

and cheerful on the surface of a desk or table

I recently found another postcard featuring a baby having just spilled a bottle of black ink all over the place

indicating that these were actively used

Antique Architectural Ornament Mold: Leaf pottery apple which may once have readI see a lot of old wooden industrial molds but only occasionally do I across across ones like this, filled with a pitch wood resin mold material, and used for casting ornaments for architecture, molding and picture frames. This is the smallest of several I'm listing, which photographs don't quite do justice (I've shot it a couple of different light situations to try to give a sense) the mold itself has a really visceral presence, feeling like a cross