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Chocolate or Ice Cream mould - Lucky Horse

$250.00

Chocolate or ice cream mould, 2.5" tall. Model # 817. Berlin, Germany: Hermann Walter, 19th-20th c.

Mark of the agent, Nieulant Pelkman, stamped on back. A heavy but small chocolate or ice cream mould featuring a horse framed in a horseshoe.

Founded in Berlin in 1866, H. Walter was the first manufacturer of chocolate moulds in Germany. By 1900, it was one of three major German firms manufacturing metal two-piece moulds. They (along with Anton Reiche and J.G. Laurosch) became the major suppliers of moulds used in Europe and the United States. Fine and bright; rare.