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This may either be a very shallow cheese mould, or a cheese stand, and it came originally from Allesley Farm near Coventry. Moulds are used in cheesemaking after curd has been formed from milk and rennet. The mould is then filled with curd and placed in the cheese press. The curd is subjected to pressure, which varies according to the type of cheese desired, and the whey is squeezed out and runs out of the mould through the 'weep holes' in the bottom and sides. It may instead be a domestic cheese stand, used to serve a large cheese (if it is a cheese mould, it is an uncommonly shallow one).

1 cheese stand: wood [willow]; good condition

Stand, cheese, Mould, cheese