SOLD Gorgeous Large Primitive Mallet with Five Fat Iron Nails and Name on Handle John J. Ivory but I really like this

but I really like this drawing a lot—I keep looking at it

with a little wobble to a couple of the legs when you pick it up

Both about 3" across at rim

issued as a promotional deck by the Sandusky Cement Co--a nationally known cement company founded in 1892

welded together where they meet

SOLD Gorgeous Large Primitive Mallet with Five Fat Iron Nails and Name on Handle John J. Ivory but I really like thisAnother 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