Perfect Object: Antique Cast Iron Two Pound Scale Weight primitive old stool 1830 British playing cards

1830 British playing cards

care and attention to fine detail

with Maine the largest and probably first producer of gum with nearly two dozen companies emerging between 1848-1910

and is in excellent condition--it is really a pretty one

then with all the color painted by hand) in a terrifically bright palette of pinks

Perfect Object: Antique Cast Iron Two Pound Scale Weight primitive old stool 1830 British playing cardsOne certainly comes across old scale weights, but I must say I don't think one has ever struck me as this one does to my eye just a perfect object, with just the right sort of "2" which somehow makes me think of carnivals and circuses and so too targets and strongmen and high striker games, etc. Cast iron, 19th c. I believe, with the rings stepped back toward the center. Perfect as a large and heavy paperweight now or a handy 2 lb. hand weight! 3 5 16