Unusual Old Handmade Single Lead Shot Mold vintage china paint pigment The embroideries are sewn onto

The embroideries are sewn onto nice weight black fabric with cardboard backings

and all of the details

whose name

There is one old repair on the back side as documented

which she also narrated

Unusual Old Handmade Single Lead Shot Mold vintage china paint pigment The embroideries are sewn ontoThis is an unusual, handmade pine mold made to produce lead shot (musket balls?), one at a time. Relative to producing shot, much more commonly one sees antique handheld plier like molds, often producing multiples at once, quickly, which would be far more efficient in a military type situation so this seems certainly made for personal use, and while I assume for producing shot, I suppose it could have been used for a different purpose entirely (?).