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The Shape Is the Whole Point
Scallop shells pressed into sheet metal, [X] of them, each one fanned with deep radiating flutes running out from the hinge. It's a shape that has been showing up on European tables, buildings, and coats of arms for centuries, and here it is stamped into a baking tray so somebody could turn out a dozen small cakes that look like something washed up on a beach.
These are madeleine pans — the shell moulds that give French madeleines their fluted face and the little domed hump on the back. The fluting isn't ornament. It's what puts a crisp edge on a soft cake, and it's why no other tin will do the job.
Unmarked, which is normal; a great many of these were made unstamped, and the shape identifies it well enough on its own.
Size: 13" wide × 7" deep. Wells:8. Material:Ttinned steel / aluminum. Mid-20th century.
Hang it on a kitchen wall where the row of shells reads as a repeating pattern. Set it on a shelf propped upright. Or lay it flat on a counter and put an egg in every well, which is a better centerpiece than most things you could buy on purpose.
Condition: Some surface scratching, pan sits flat, no rust-through or dents. No sharp seam edges. Please study every photo closely; they're part of the description.
Handpicked because a tray that only makes one thing, and makes it beautifully, is a better object than a tray that half-makes twelve. Carefully packed with love and sent on its way to you.
