RAISIN PIES, Classic Pair of 5 Inch Heavy Brass Curved Print Blocks, c. 1940s-50s Southeast Asian and the painterly

and the painterly

terrifically intricate design rendered in shades of orange

embroidered with the name Sarah Sanborn

They are/were wooden spools for ribbon of various lengths and widths--that ribbon long gone now but for one spool still wound in white satin ribbon

RAISIN PIES, Classic Pair of 5 Inch Heavy Brass Curved Print Blocks, c. 1940s-50s Southeast Asian and the painterlyI found these in Vermont and thought, think, they're great. Not just pies but raisin pies! And in a perfect pie shop diner font. Made on the curve, I presume for stamping a round pie box or else curved signage? Solid brass, heavy, and of good size, perfect as substantial paperweights now (perhaps a perfect gift for one's favorite pie lover,) and just good objects. Each 4 11 16" (measured straight across not on curve) x 1 3 16". Standing 1 2" t at