Antique Cast Iron Fisted Hand with Cross at Wrist vintage Japanese sculpture but when laid on its

but when laid on its side it can be positioned however one likes

So let it be as they have said

First quarter of thew 20th century I would think

with the number of tassels indicating rank

Antique Cast Iron Fisted Hand with Cross at Wrist vintage Japanese sculpture but when laid on itsA curious thing, this old cast iron fisted hand weighs nearly 4 pounds, and based on another similar I have found out there sold by another dealer, I believe it might originally have been a gate weight perhaps for a church gate, with the cross at the base but I'm not 100% certain. There is a recess on the reverse side of the hand perhaps to which somehow a chain once attached. The other similar I found was dated to Civil War era, and I might guess