Grid of Nipples! Antique Porcelain Baby Bottle Nipple Molds in Original Armature straw brush Thayer--an educator and Episcopalian minister

Thayer--an educator and Episcopalian minister who built a second home and summered in Ipswich (son of Robert Helyer Thayer

I don't believe it can be removed from the cage--at least I have not been able to get it out--but it might be possible from exactly the right angle

but it is signed with a chop at lower right

to form the scales

It snaps closed tightly with a satisfying click

Grid of Nipples! Antique Porcelain Baby Bottle Nipple Molds in Original Armature straw brush Thayer--an educator and Episcopalian ministerI couldn't resist this these found at an antiques shop in Lancaster County, PA. A collector friend recently showed me an old porcelain condom mold in his collection of a similar ilk to these, but I think these are pretty decisively bottle nipple molds, to my mind a perfect feminine counterpoint! And to my sensibilities there is a certain surrealist or Louise Bourgeois esque quality to the whole nest of them an uncanny sort of outcrop, emphatic