19th century Butter mould and stamp / Moule et étampe à beurre du 19ième siècle

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A butter mould is a tool used to form butter into shapes, while a butter stamp is used to mark the butter with a design. In many instances they were combined in the same device. Butter moulds and stamps were introduced to North America by European settlers who brought the tools and techniques from their homelands. Butter moulds were particularly useful for marketing butter as it allowed producers to form a quantity of butter with a desired weight, while the stamp