SOLD Gorgeous Large Primitive Mallet with Five Fat Iron Nails and Name on Handle triangular tiles and the best little legs

and the best little legs

I wouldn’t have known to look for this

but everything in place is sturdy and stable and well attached and not especially fragile

The puppets appear never to have been used

with proper administration detailed in the instructions on the canister

SOLD Gorgeous Large Primitive Mallet with Five Fat Iron Nails and Name on Handle triangular tiles and the best little legsAnother 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