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  • Unknown Artist

    • Title

  • Gingerbread mold owned by Richard Beer Hofmann

  • Physical Description

    1 mold : wood ; 10 1/2" x 7 1/8" x 1 1/4", 26.8 cm x 18 cm x 3.2 cm

  • Date

    17th or 18th century

  • Notes

    The initials IAK are carved near the horse's tail (possibly the artist's initials?).

  • Summary

    Wooden board that acts as a decorative mold or stamp for impressing a design into gingerbread before baking. The design shows a man dressed in Georgian period dress, on horseback. The initials MOP or POM are carved in an insignia near the horse's feet (possibly the intials of the original owner of the gingerbread mold?). The back of the board features a design meant to evoke architectural features.

  • Depicted

    Beer-Hofmann, Richard, 1866-1945

  • Medium

    Tools and equipment; Culinary equipment; Culinary molds; Objects

  • Part Of

    ... "a wooden mould for gingerbread" [archival collection], MS 1111; George V. Wolfe clipping collection, AR 26016 C

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Biographical/Historical Information

The gingerbread mold was owned by the poet, novelist, and playwright, Richard Beer-Hofmann (1866-1945), an "avid collector of art and antiques". Beer-Hofmann passed the mold on to his distant relative, George V(ictor) Wolfe (a son of Beer-Hofmann’s cousin), who in turn gave it to Ed Reckford in 1986.

The academic George Victor Wolfe (Vienna, 1904 – Caldwell, ID, 1990) was a professor of political science at the College of Idaho in Caldwell, Idaho.

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Unknown Artist: Gingerbread mold owned by Richard Beer Hofmann, Leo Baeck Institute, 2022.45.