I do not know anything about this. Do they have any value?
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This is a ceramic mold that has been poured in a ceramic shop. The mold has two sides and slip clay is poured int the mold and then held together with rubber bands or clamps until the mold drys. A person then cleans the lines and uses low fire glaze to add the finish to the piece. The reason I am saying this is because of the large letter E on the bottom of the piece and where the hole is located. I did a lot of mold pouring and I helped my grandmother pour a lot of her molds when she was dong ceramics. This looks like some of the choices they had at the studio she use to go to.
This looks like a mold for making ceramic figurines.
Molds and making pieces by hand are not so common anymore but there are thousands of handmade pieces similar to this floating around somewhere as this was a well liked 'hobby' several years ago.
Most of the items were simple so that inexperienced people could make them and also learn how to paint them before they were placed in the kiln to be fired.
Whoever made the piece placed the E on the bottom to identify who it belonged to as they may have fired 30-40 pieces at one time. Some people put their name or mark on the figurine itself but most just added an initial.
I do not believe it could be 'valuable' except maybe to the family of the person who made it.
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