SOLD Excellent Five Pound Civil War Era (Date Stamped) Iron Horse Tether with Cross magnetic puzzle perfectly clean tear on the

perfectly clean tear on the left edge midway down

Center of the R is missing and there is a small tear to the brass at the bottom of that letter

it is all about the combination of form and surface

and there is something about the particular dinged-up cheerfulness of this one particularly that keeps reminding me of the fried chicken chain/front for Gus Fring's meth empire on Breaking Bad

Quite a pair of charmers this Dan and Tip

SOLD Excellent Five Pound Civil War Era (Date Stamped) Iron Horse Tether with Cross magnetic puzzle perfectly clean tear on theI 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