Perfect Object: Antique Cast Iron Two Pound Scale Weight primitive old stool with Maine the largest and

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

and it reminded me of how infrequently I find modern sculpture of a substantial scale that I really like when I am out hunting for things

all to the good in this case

1830 British playing cards

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 with Maine the largest andOne 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