Well Used and Reinforced Old Braided Leather Black Jack antique transformation card or just tossed around

or just tossed around

(Also feels a bit like a precursor to folded cigarette pack frames

9 3/4" t x 5 1/4" w x 4"d  and in good condition

and then an iridescent round bead

which begins with two boys discovering a giant painting of marching elephants on the wall of a local barn announcing the (pre-Barnum & Bailey) circus coming to town

Well Used and Reinforced Old Braided Leather Black Jack antique transformation card or just tossed aroundI've had a couple of very beautiful antique knotwork (macrame) sailor's coshes, which were actually what made me aware of this type of weapon, more commonly known as a blackjack. Subtle, but brutal, they features a pliable, braided middle and heavily weighted end, designed to enable a very bruising thwacking. Perhaps this black leather one, well worn at the weight end and reinforced with near the handle, was carried by a policeman in the 1920s or so,