Old antique French rustic wooden butter mould with Cockerel carved detail

A delightfully rustic old French hand-carved vintage or antique dairy butter mould.
This mould would have been used in the dairy for forming the butter pats ready for the table once the butter was churned from milk.
The construction is simple and quite primitive, the base is carved with decoration of a cockerel so the butter would look nice when it was turned out. Two curved, shaped sides are hinged at one end and are held in place with a hook and loop catch which is released to allow removal of the pat once formed and chilled. The base has indents where four metal L pin brackets sit, to keep the base snugly in place.
Size approx Length 22.5cm, width 10cm, height 4.5cm.
This item is in reasonable antique condition, you can see from the photos that there are some old, historic and extinct worm holes in the piece, if you wish to use it and are concerned about hygiene, the item can be boiled to sterilise it.

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