Antique Cast Iron Tassel Shaped Gate Weight ship builders print and also a great frame

and also a great frame

with creamy white painted tin faces inlaid over ebony wood

with this ambiguous architectural structure at the center

and then this big hand holding his trumpet to his mouth with tassels like teardrops painted in this perfect blue hanging from it

Whatever the story

Antique Cast Iron Tassel Shaped Gate Weight ship builders print and also a great frameI 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