Super Special 19th C. Double Sided Happy New Year Cookie Print algerian Mexico painted on the reverse

Mexico painted on the reverse side

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The larger set of balls--about 1 inch in diameter--is complete

Leopold II (King of Belgium)

While the sale was loaded with other (mostly much larger) paintings and sculptures by him

Super Special 19th C. Double Sided Happy New Year Cookie Print algerian Mexico painted on the reverseI'm not at all a connoisseur of carved wood molds and prints for cookies and cakes and butter, but I've been keeping a close eye out for ones to fall in love with, and I'm completely in love with this one, which I believe would be used for pressing patterns into speculaas springerle cookies. One one side, this wonderful leaping dog, but it's the flip side that is the really special one to me, carved with a wonderfully primitive figure with Happy New