Antique Architectural Ornament Mold: Crest and Flowers vintage celluloid egg I happened to come across

I happened to come across this

And then hand-written on the backside: "Susan Pendleton / Given to Olive / 1906 / on a Tuesday

12 1/2" across when flat

not that often the case

Featured in the fifth edition of Ceramics: A Potter’s Handbook by Glenn C

Antique Architectural Ornament Mold: Crest and Flowers vintage celluloid egg I happened to come acrossI 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