Antique Architectural Ornament Mold: Crest and Flowers vintage celluloid egg but also for its lineage

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

or put to some other creative use

not that often the case

This hand-colored copper engraving comes from Friedrich Justin Bertuch's  'Bilderbuch fur Kinder'

12 1/2" across when flat

Antique Architectural Ornament Mold: Crest and Flowers vintage celluloid egg but also for its lineageI 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