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Gingerbread mould with a design of a couple (Jacobean?) and 2 stylised birds. From John Dennis, bakers' family in East Hendred for 200 years.
This wooden gingerbread mould, made of beech wood, is incised with a design of a man and a woman in dress that might be Jacobean on one side and two stylised birds on the other. It was given to Lavinia Smith by Mr John Denniss, whose family had been bakers in East Hendred for 200 years.

1 mould: wood (beech); rectangular

MERL 'Catalogue index' card – 'This mould was given to Miss Smith by Mr. John Denniss of East Hendred (Berkshire). The block measures 8.75 by 5 inches and is 1.1 inches wide. On one side, are two figures, a man and a woman in dress that might be Jacobean, and on the other two stylised birds. The wood is beech. // See also, 51/108 M', Lavinia Smith No. 97., Lavinia Smith Catalogue (D60/28) – 'A list of the contents of the East Hendred museum. July 5 1940 //Small articles on the Wood Table // 93-97. Five gingerbread moulds given to me by John Denniss whose family have been the village bakers for 200 years', Heritage of the Hendreds Exhibition 1969 - 'Catalogue of Exhibits // Number 45 // Two Gingerbread Moulds // Lent by Museum of English Rural Life' (The catalogue description could also refer to 51/538, 51/537, 51/539 and 51/536)

Rippon, Miss Dorothy May Lyddon (Agent)