Perfect Object: Antique Cast Iron Two Pound Scale Weight primitive old stool care and attention to fine

care and attention to fine detail

) with great taste

He might once have been attached to a post of some sort and perhaps popped up in a jack in the box of sorts as some of these squeakers did- I'm not sure

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

all to the good in this case

Perfect Object: Antique Cast Iron Two Pound Scale Weight primitive old stool care and attention to fineOne 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