I received a really wonderful birthday gift from my sister- and brother-in-law a few weeks ago that I wanted to share with you. My sister-in-law, Melonie, has a small collection of beautiful antique chocolate molds hanging in her kitchen. The collection was started by her husband Jean's adoptive mother, a woman whose style Melonie greatly admires. I've always loved the chocolate molds too, and always make a point to look at them when I visit Melonie's house.
This year, Melonie and Jean gave me a fabulous gift--my very own chocolate mold! I couldn't be more thrilled, and can't wait to hang it on my wall. It's difficult to tell scale from this photograph, but the mold is about 13" x 6", which seems to be on the small-to-medium side for such molds. It's made of some type of heavy metal.
Melonie tells me that they are called Holland chocolate molds, which is misleading because they're not actually Dutch. I love the combination of the shiny and worn parts of the metal, and the repeating wells of the mold give the whole thing a very graphic quality. They're industrial meets vintage cool. I've only come across one or two of these in my antiquing travels, and never in my thrifting (but I'm not giving up hope!).
Here are some other examples from eBay, found by searching either "Holland chocolate mold" or "antique chocolate mold". I can't post the photos because eBay disabled right-click copying, but you can click on the links to see them.
Shipping for most of these gets expensive, since the molds are quite heavy for their size. I'm definitely going to keep looking at local antique malls because I feel a collection coming on. Since you've got to have three for a collection, I've got at least two more to buy!
What a wonderful gift! I'm sure it will look wonderful in your kitchen. Are you going to start a collection?
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