Modernist Feeling 19th Century Hand-Carved Double Sided Butter Stamp with Geometric Designs victorian embroidery I also begin to wonder

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

but everything in place is sturdy and stable and well attached and not especially fragile

) And the paint on these

Looks like ink and watercolor to me--on folded paper

Modernist Feeling 19th Century Hand-Carved Double Sided Butter Stamp with Geometric Designs victorian embroidery I also begin to wonderMy 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