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There is pencil writing on both sides of the slide tip lid of the box
right down to the fact that he probably lost a pipe along the way
) of Unadilla Forks
and some scratches and a few dark marks visible on one side
Iron Studded French Boules/Petanque Ball with Cross Pattern, c. 1880s faux eggs There is pencil writing onA beauty. I've found one or two of these over the years but it has been quite a while. It is a French petanque ball (petanque a version of boules), and is an early one, c. 1880s; they don't make iron studded ones like this anymore! From what I have learned about examples like this, the interior of the ball is likely olive wood, which was hand shaped and sanded, and then the square iron nails were hammered in one by one, with each nail hole precisely
