Large (9 Pound) Old Leather Glove Cutting Die pair of stone fruit pears oil on hardboard

oil on hardboard

I don't know the maker of this tall columnar vase

similarly carved and covered with intensively hand- painted patterns

like this vintage Central street sign

The wood is a dark wood which has been painted/stained black

Large (9 Pound) Old Leather Glove Cutting Die pair of stone fruit pears oil on hardboardThis is the largest of three old steel die I am listing, which would have been used to cut leather for gloves and mittens. I also have the (also vey large and very heavy) maul that would have been used to pound them into the leather to cut it if you have an interest in that, just let me know! I love these as objects, both graphic and sculptural, and this one, which weighs about 9 pounds, certainly having the most emphatic objecthood of all! (This one