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Butter print with a design of a wheatsheaf and patterned border. Used by Mrs Allwright, Gallowstree Common, Oxon., until the end of the 19th C..
Butter prints were used for leaving a hallmark of the place of origin on blocks of butter and often had symbolic designs. This is a round print with a carved design of a wheatsheaf and a patterned border. It is made of sycamore, a close-grained wood often used for dairy equipment, where scrubbing and cleaing is important. It was used by Mrs Allwright of Gallowstree Common, Oxfordshire, until the end of the nineteenth century.

1 butter print: wood [sycamore]; good condition

MERL Miscellaneous note, Greta Bertram, 12 February 2013 - An existing note on Adlib gives 1847 as the approximate date made; however, there is no indication of this in the accession files., MERL ‘History Artefacts’ card – ‘Description: A round print made from one piece of wood. It has a wheatsheaf design with a patterned border. // Use: For stamping butter with the hallmark of its place of origin.’

1800-01-01 - 1899-12-31

Nineteenth century