Antique Architectural Ornament Mold: Crest and Flowers vintage celluloid egg I happened to come across

I happened to come across this

And then hand-written on the backside: "Susan Pendleton / Given to Olive / 1906 / on a Tuesday

but also for its lineage among what one imagines are many thousands of similar photos taken at this tree over many many years

Featured in the fifth edition of Ceramics: A Potter’s Handbook by Glenn C

or put to some other creative use

Antique Architectural Ornament Mold: Crest and Flowers vintage celluloid egg I happened to come acrossI 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 largest of several I'm listing, with a crest form set at an angle along with three different flowers, which I really love altogether for the sort of strangeness of the composition. Photographs don't quite do justice