Evocative 1877 Plaster Portrait Mold of Bearded Gentleman wooden envelope with paper loss on just

with paper loss on just a few blocks

and perfect now for taking to the store filled out in advance

When I spotted this

Signed (incised) on the underside but indecipherable

but I do believe she is meant to be a ballerina

Evocative 1877 Plaster Portrait Mold of Bearded Gentleman wooden envelope with paper loss on justI think I'd be way less interested in the cast plaster portraits created from this than I am in the mold itself, which I find super evocative and a bit haunting too, with all of its patina now making it feel a bit like a momento mori. I don't know who this man was, but there is a date of 1877 carved into the back. Around the perimeter is an old iron wire holding it together one assumes added at the time it cracked along his shoulder with a beautiful