SOLD Excellent Five Pound Civil War Era (Date Stamped) Iron Horse Tether with Cross magnetic puzzle in this very Arts and

in this very Arts and Crafts feeling palette and with an almost Cubist feeling to the faceting of that dusty rose color

perfectly clean tear on the left edge midway down

making it perfect for sitting like a sculpture on a shelf

but here this beautiful small footed bowl with coppery glaze I just stumbled upon in Maine

Center of the R is missing and there is a small tear to the brass at the bottom of that letter

SOLD Excellent Five Pound Civil War Era (Date Stamped) Iron Horse Tether with Cross magnetic puzzle in this very Arts andI really tried to walk away from this one, thinking I really did not need a 5 pound iron horse tether, but between the five sided form and the cross and the italic font of that 5, it was just too good and satisfying as an object to let go. And would make a good doorstop, or tether for the dog, now. All the more I was delighted to turn it over while photographing it to find a date stamped (impressed) at the center, 186_ (I believe 1864.) And two