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Kitchen Whatsit? Butter or Cookie Press? Folk Art or Primitive? Can't decide

Ended up with 2 truck loads of items from a flea market seller who was retiring so no information on provenance.

Going through a box this morning I spotted one of these at the bottom and first thought was butter press but not so sure after some search on ebay and around the web.

I now think they are handmade cookie presses and would like to see what others thought

 

Ended up being 4 total

They are between 1" to 1 1/2" across and 1" to 1 1/4" tall

same color and texture of the unglazed areas of a crock

 

Was also wonder about an age or if these could be called "primitive" or Folk Art?

 

Sorry fast pics for posting

Thanks

 

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DW

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Kitchen Whatsit? Butter or Cookie Press? Folk Art or Primitive? Can't decide

They are butter presses.

Back in the day when housewives made their own butter, they liked to fancy up the pats of butter with different designs.

They can also be used to press designs into cookie dough.

I would call them Folk Art.
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