Perfect Object: Antique Cast Iron Two Pound Scale Weight sandwich box I really love the face

I really love the face on this cat

perhaps a mythological one

surely it could stand to be cleaned

whether or not one ever attempts to take it apart and try to put it back together again

and mended at some point years ago

Perfect Object: Antique Cast Iron Two Pound Scale Weight sandwich box I really love the faceOne 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