Cooky Day / Folk Art Antique Tin Cooky Cutters

 

 

Hi everyone. Today is Christmas cooky day here at the beach. I thought I'd share my collection of antique Pennsylvania handmade cookie cutters. Actually this is not exactly a collection, I bought a big old tin with all these unusual cutters inside. I believe the designs are rare and unique, so many wonderful shapes I've never seen anywhere else. (There's a camel too; the dealer had him for me the following week!)
I like to display them in my biggest wooden bread dough bowl.

Here are the backs. You can see how crude and homemade they are. And dating from a time when I suppose a farmwife would make cookies often? Perhaps late 1800s.

 

 

Household items



scissors, my favorite



scissors back

 

key

 

People




man

  

lady

 

baby! Or what?
Ideas gratefully considered,
this one's a msytery to me.
 

animals

horse

 

fox number One



fox number two

wonderful kitty

 

 

Rabbit number one / jackrabbit

 

Rabbit number two / Bunny

 

lion

 

whale

 

 

 

 

Birds and Easter egg



 

easter egg / damaged

swan!



chicken
 

crow
 

robin
 

storebought hen

 

Eagle or Christmas turkey


Stars
 

Star with tulips

 

 

 

open star

 

Miscellaneous

holly leaf?

cracker

There were hearts too but  keep them with my rather large heart cooky cutter collection.I don't make cutout fancy cookies anymore. So each year I look at this collection and think, Should I sell them? I know they're collectible. But someday---far in the future, when I have a new little grand-helper?---I hope to make a gingerbread Noah's Ark.

This year I made simple shortbread cookies. No one here eats sweets [I threw out 3/4 of the Thanksgiving cheesecake, so sad.] but I feel a holiday dinner needs---something?
I used my grandmother's springerle pin.

 

It's hand carved, I think pearwood?  And it needs a handle repair.

 

Nothing special but they'll be something to offer on Christmas Day with a cup of tea?


 Mo thinks they'll be delish!

 

love

 

lizzy

 

gone to the beach..........

 

 

 

 

 

cold but sparkling