Antique Architectural Ornament Mold: Crest and Flowers vintage celluloid egg 12 1/2" across when flat

12 1/2" across when flat

I love the drama of this piece

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not that often the case

I happened to come across this

Antique Architectural Ornament Mold: Crest and Flowers vintage celluloid egg 12 1/2" across when flatI 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