Antique Iron Tassel-Shaped Gate Weight bathroom accessories Funny little things--a pair of

Funny little things--a pair of miniature ink drawings with tiny collaged photo heads

there was no way I could resist--though I'm not the least bit good solving them

this is a perfect piece to add to the everyday mix

with the iron giving it substantial weight

I purchased this piece from an estate in Boston that included a wonderful mix of interesting antique and mid-century objects collected through travels around the world

Antique Iron Tassel-Shaped Gate Weight bathroom accessories Funny little things--a pair ofI think old cast iron gate weights are excellent objects and a fun thing to collect, with a lot of variety to tassel shaped ones of this sort; I believe this one probably 3rd quarter 19th century. A weight like this would have been hung from from a chain, most commonly on a garden gate, functioning as a counterweight to make the gate close on its own. The transformation of the form of a silk curtain tassel into a solid iron one makes it feel like