Butter stamp

A butter stamp or butter print[1] is a device for stamping or shaping a design onto a block of warm butter.

[2] Butter stamps were sometimes commercial but usually purely decorative and applied in homes.

[3] They were typically made of wood and feature simple designs of cows, flowers or geometric patterns and, if commercial, the name of the retailer.

Other designs achieved the same effect by carving the design at the bottom of a butter mould.

[5] Part of the intent for commercial moulds and stamps was to demonstrate consistency in the quantity of butter sold.