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Cast Iron Cookie Wafer

 

Cast iron cookie wafers with intaglio design date to the 1840's and most likely originated in New York - possibly Albany or Troy where the stove manufacturing companies were located.  This wafer depicts fruit and berries in a basket. They were used to impress cakes, cookies or biscuits.  Typically cast iron molds of this type are rectangular or round and on the end of long handles used to make thin "wafers" over an open fire often times for use in communion.  Molds like this one are often referred to as press or roll-over mold and were most likely made in a local foundry.

 

                                               #1-2010                          $295