Lovely Smallish Arts and Crafts Style Mold teak 8x10 1/2”

8x10 1/2”

let alone had in hand

reminding one of a terrific expressionistic woodcut

is done on a piece of stationary from the Benjamin Franklin Hotel in Philadelphia

This original gouache and watercolor on board was created by William Charles Palmer as an Illustration for a children's book about the adventures of a snowman

Lovely Smallish Arts and Crafts Style Mold teak 8x10 1/2”This old mold looks Arts and Crafts in style to me, and I just think really pretty, including for the way the two shiny silver metal plates frame either side of the recessed tree like form's "trunk". I would think there was once another similar plate that fit on top of this one and locked to it via the metal posts, and might guess it was used for plaster, but I'm really not sure. It seems that the mold itself is made of a heavy, almost slate like