SOLD Excellent Five Pound Civil War Era (Date Stamped) Iron Horse Tether with Cross antique salesman sample both applied many many years

both applied many many years ago

Saar Ceramics studio operated from 1949 to 1962 producing tableware

came from a portfolio of antique drawings by Pennsylvania folk/outsider artist Wayne B

A total charmer of a drawing I think

There is an 1853 Gatteaux duty mark on the Jack of Clubs but no addition duty stamp

SOLD Excellent Five Pound Civil War Era (Date Stamped) Iron Horse Tether with Cross antique salesman sample both applied many many yearsI 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