Butter prints and molds are a perfect combination of the useful and the beautiful. Hand-carved wooden prints are sought as folk art. Some sold recently at a Julia auction in Maine for prices ranging from $69 to $1,495-not bad for woodenware that started out as a way of identifying butter. …
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