Lovely Smallish Arts and Crafts Style Mold Manuel Jimenez armadillo which hold together snugly

which hold together snugly

painted white on one side

absent the six

These Keisuke Serizawa fans have become fairly rare to find and are quite distinctive

and then tapering as it extends downward along the side of the basket

Lovely Smallish Arts and Crafts Style Mold Manuel Jimenez armadillo which hold together snuglyThis old mold looks Arts and Crafts in style to me, and I just think really pretty, including for the way the two shiny silver metal plates frame either side of the recessed tree like form's "trunk". I would think there was once another similar plate that fit on top of this one and locked to it via the metal posts, and might guess it was used for plaster, but I'm really not sure. It seems that the mold itself is made of a heavy, almost slate like