Antique Cast Iron Tassel Shaped Gate Weight ship builders print with this ambiguous architectural structure

with this ambiguous architectural structure at the center

8 5/8" l x 2 5/8" w x 7/8" thick and in sound condition

which I also think is pretty genius: of course one wants to see inside a piggy bank to watch one's nickels and dimes accumulating

certainly a relative of the Mr

Whatever the story

Antique Cast Iron Tassel Shaped Gate Weight ship builders print with this ambiguous architectural structureI really love this weight just as an object, looking a bit like a woman in a wide skirt, but it is also completely ready to use a weight to keep the garden gate closed, or certainly to weight all sorts of other things. Late 19th century I believe, it is marked with an MH and than what looks like a large I then K on reverse. 6 9 16" t x 2 5 8" w x 1 3 4" d and weighs about 2 pounds. Photos don't do justice to it's presence and patina; really a nice