SOLD Gorgeous Large Primitive Mallet with Five Fat Iron Nails and Name on Handle porcelain doll to her curls and bow

to her curls and bow

2 3/8" tall x 1 3/4" wide x 9/16" deep

so would think that was the year

"A Guide to the Manly Art of Self-Defense

which I have to think was cut down from a longer sign

SOLD Gorgeous Large Primitive Mallet with Five Fat Iron Nails and Name on Handle porcelain doll to her curls and bowAnother old handmade tool that feels like pure sculpture to me, just gorgeous, and with these five old forged iron nails making it look like a giant handmade wood die (as in dice), and a bit like a face, too. Traces of old red paint on one side and white on the other, making for beautiful surfaces, and with, it looks to me, a name pressed in to the handle on one side. Solid and heavy, this could knock the heck out of anything, but also feel to me like