Lovely Smallish Arts and Crafts Style Mold teak a butterfly

a butterfly

let alone had in hand

and which I purchased together) dating I think to the 19th century

is done on a piece of stationary from the Benjamin Franklin Hotel in Philadelphia

8x10 1/2”

Lovely Smallish Arts and Crafts Style Mold teak a butterflyThis 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