S/2320A Antique Treen 19th Century Birch Gingerbread Mould

An exceptionally well carved rectangular birch gingerbread mould depicting a king on horseback. It is inscribed on the reverse Banket-Bakkery Francois Nicola Taverne in Twello, GEI (a Dutch province of Gelderland) and branded three times H L. The whole retains a patination.

Sold 11½ in. (29 cm.) Wide
1 in. (2.5 cm.) Deep
15 in. (38 cm.) High
Dutch Circa 1840