Antique Iron Tassel-Shaped Gate Weight bathroom accessories and perhaps simultaneously use the

and perhaps simultaneously use the bowl as a holder for a handful of paperclips

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

this is a perfect piece to add to the everyday mix

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

Antique Iron Tassel-Shaped Gate Weight bathroom accessories and perhaps simultaneously use theI 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