Stunning Antique Victorian Butter Roller with Rare Pattern

This is a quality piece of antique treen kitchenalia dating from the nineteenth Century.

This Victorian hardwood butter roller has a lovely mellow colour to it and is very deeply carved. Butter rollers would have been used to decorate hand made butter. This example has a deep decorative geometric pattern, which also has layering within it, plus a pretty border. All of the carving is crisp and defined still.

Antique butter stamps like this look lovely displayed as part of a kitchenalia collection. They are also excellent used in the modern kitchen as biscuit stamps. They work particularly well on shortbread.

The butter print is in excellent overall condition, with a lovely worn patina to the wood. Complete with its original wooden fittings, the roller still moves well and would be very usable. 

Length, 18cm
Width (across edge of roller), 2.8cm
Height (across diameter of roller), 5.5cm