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Fleur de lys Prince of Wales feathers uranium butter mold

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thewingedsphinx:
Hi Anne

The round base is very scuffed and don’t forget the writing is a mirror image and can only be read from the material that has been empresses onto/into in thus case play doh. It’s quite awkward to handle as a stamp so it could be for some other kind of mold?? Unfortunately the text is very small so still please refer to my first thread.
 Still a mystery?
Regards Mike

Anne:
Thanks Mike, it is very scuffed for sure. I was idly wondering if it might have been a paperweight to be read from above, but having seen the top view I don't think it is.  I wonder if it was for impressing the tops of biscuits, like shortbread moulds we still see around, rather than butter?  It's definitely an interesting thingummybob, whatever it is.

thewingedsphinx:
Hi, yes I originally thought a biscuit or pastry mold but the pattern is quite intricate not sure if the detail would show on a shortbread biscuit,..

Paul S.:
another line of thought ………………..    can't remember exactly now, but do traditional wooden butter moulds have a handle or some means of holding them while they are pressed onto the butter.          This one doesn't have a handle of any sorts to grip while pressing  -  does that possibly rule out a butter mould, and of course if you had butter on your fingers then the mould would become very slippery, and this might account for dropping the thing which has caused all the damage ;D

Anne:
It works so well in your Play Doh, that I'm now thinking of pie tops - pastry would be a similar consistency, unlike biscuit dough which is stiffer and denser.  Perhaps to make small pies for street parties - Prince of Wales connection.

Paul, yes exactly that's what made me doubt it's for butter.

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