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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Carol jeske, post: 515682, member: 10034&quot;]The cookie name you might be looking for is Springerle.&nbsp; A Swiss Anise cookie dating back to the 14th century.&nbsp; However those were generally small, painfully detailed molds.&nbsp; These look like molds for gingerbread, speculaas, speculoos, Lebkuchen or similar cookie.&nbsp; These cookies rise and spread a little while baking so a less detailed but deeply cut mold is preferable.&nbsp;&nbsp; I bought a cat mold recently with a human sort of face and found out that in Medieval times, cats were considered sort of evil.&nbsp; And art was supposed to be more symbolic than anatomically correct.&nbsp; Often animals with human faces were used to instruct us about good and bad behavior in humans, not unlike a fable.&nbsp;&nbsp; The imagery however by itself cannot date the object because similar popular images were copied for centuries.&nbsp; A signature or the wood itself might be more helpful.&nbsp; Love these molds though!&nbsp; Beautiful and collectible[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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