SOLD Excellent Five Pound Civil War Era (Date Stamped) Iron Horse Tether with Cross magnetic puzzle 7 3/8" d x 3

7 3/8" d x 3 1/8" t

in this very Arts and Crafts feeling palette and with an almost Cubist feeling to the faceting of that dusty rose color

Quite a pair of charmers this Dan and Tip

making it perfect for sitting like a sculpture on a shelf

and those five disks with "stem" at center look a bit like a lotus

SOLD Excellent Five Pound Civil War Era (Date Stamped) Iron Horse Tether with Cross magnetic puzzle 7 3/8" d x 3I really tried to walk away from this one, thinking I really did not need a 5 pound iron horse tether, but between the five sided form and the cross and the italic font of that 5, it was just too good and satisfying as an object to let go. And would make a good doorstop, or tether for the dog, now. All the more I was delighted to turn it over while photographing it to find a date stamped (impressed) at the center, 186_ (I believe 1864.) And two