Super Special 19th C. Double Sided Happy New Year Cookie Print folk art gameboard It was made from a

It was made from a "400 year old bristle cone pine" by a JE Lux (or JELUX)

It does not seem that the claw opens--at least not easily

like on a slide top box

8" without

Super Special 19th C. Double Sided Happy New Year Cookie Print folk art gameboard It was made from aI'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