Vintage Industrial Wooden Foundry Mold pattern Pipe Form casting steampunk art

Description

This great old matched pair pipe fitting foundry mold. This wooden foundry mold is from the early 1900's. It came from the
Dickey Clay co in Pittsburg Ks.
Founded in 1899 as the Pittsburg Paving Brick Company changed to Dickey Clay in 1910.
The foundry used these molds in a sand casting process to produce cast iron molds. The molds were made by specially skilled craftsmen, whose precision woodworking, made perfect replicas of the cast iron piece
for there machinery to make sewer pipe. 2 piece mold
measures 6 1/2" log x 7" wide 5 1/2" approx.