Old 2+ Lb. Weight with Satisfying Shape and Surface antique sketchbook and 2 3/4" tall

and 2 3/4" tall

with the brown sports all over from the body of the clay

other smallish creatures

and when things like this have already endured more than a hundred years

no mends required

Old 2+ Lb. Weight with Satisfying Shape and Surface antique sketchbook and 2 3/4" tallI would guess, having a handle of sorts, that this was a weight for some sort of industrial scale, but Im not certain. As per my postal scale, it weighs 2 lbs. 4 oz or so. I love it for its satisfying form, and for its black surface that also shows some traces of red on the handle where it was clearly much grabbed, and for the flat, unpainted bottom that looks sliced with an industrial saw rather than cast. Useful for holding down large piles of