Mind Your Book Nancy with Alphabet on Reverse (and Poultry Poundage) heart and curl wrought iron finely made set of "bones"

finely made set of "bones"

sets the imagination wandering

if it is indeed an antique coin bank as I think it is

Cloth Measure

sweetly painted in blue and orange with gold striped details

Mind Your Book Nancy with Alphabet on Reverse (and Poultry Poundage) heart and curl wrought iron finely made set of "bones"I'm not entirely sure why I find this very old scrap so appealing and satisfying, with "Mind your Book Nancy" repeated three times on one side and a partial alphabet three times on reverse, but it certainly has something to do with the hard trying effort invested in making each of those letters and phrases, including the fact that one "mind" looks like "mond" and also alludes to "mend," and that the second "book" looks a lot like "boob"! (On the