Headless Dog Old Industrial Die-Cut Toy Mold folk art ex voto or are all different

or are all different

and would be content just to look at it and spin the globe now and then

beginning with January 1885 and progressing through to May 1888

9" tall  x 4 3/8" wide (at base)

this basket is also very sturdy

Headless Dog Old Industrial Die-Cut Toy Mold folk art ex voto or are all differentI've had a handful of these types of old wood and steel toy molds previously, and will keep picking them up as the forms of them are so often strange and highly evocative. This one was surely made to form the body of a dog, with a separate mold to cut his head. Of course I love it for its strangeness, all the better as amplified by the nuts and bolts and screws! 5 7 8" l x 4 3 4" t x 1" d and in good condition, with a little dryness to the surface of