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

I happened to come across this

This hand-colored copper engraving comes from Friedrich Justin Bertuch's  'Bilderbuch fur Kinder'

I love the drama of this piece

and this is very much one of those

or put to some other creative use

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