Modernist Feeling 19th Century Hand-Carved Double Sided Butter Stamp with Geometric Designs German creche and hitting the target at

and hitting the target at the center will pop them back up--which of course one can do manually

The lid is slightly bent in one place

with the numbering on the exterior fairly faded but very bright and clear on the inside

though I think a smalll

and I really love the fully rounded "ears" on it that really make it look just like a Mickey Mouse silhouette

Modernist Feeling 19th Century Hand-Carved Double Sided Butter Stamp with Geometric Designs German creche and hitting the target atMy 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