SOLD Curious Old Hand-carved Bible-Shaped Wooden Mold antique green paint especially the center front one

especially the center front one

This hide shows some age but is this mask is in very good clean condition

which suggests use as a letter opener or page turner

augmented by eyeballs that make him look cross-eyed

they still look great and have years of good use in them yet

SOLD Curious Old Hand-carved Bible-Shaped Wooden Mold antique green paint especially the center front oneAdmittedly, I don't know much about old carved molds, and am not someone who gets especially excited about butter molds or gingerbread molds, etc., but I did get excited and curious about this old book shaped mold, with a framed cross carved into both faces of it to define it as a bible. There are five carved and interlocking pieces here the two faces, a carved spine of the same height, and then two shorter pieces which fit into the top and bottom