SOLD Gorgeous Large Primitive Mallet with Five Fat Iron Nails and Name on Handle porcelain doll 2 3/8" tall x 1

2 3/8" tall x 1 3/4" wide x 9/16" deep

which I have to think was cut down from a longer sign

with scattered stains and dings

Hard to decide which side of this I like better

Definitely it was done many years ago--in magic marker I believe--as the paper is pretty brittle

SOLD Gorgeous Large Primitive Mallet with Five Fat Iron Nails and Name on Handle porcelain doll 2 3/8" tall x 1Another old handmade tool that feels like pure sculpture to me, just gorgeous, and with these five old forged iron nails making it look like a giant handmade wood die (as in dice), and a bit like a face, too. Traces of old red paint on one side and white on the other, making for beautiful surfaces, and with, it looks to me, a name pressed in to the handle on one side. Solid and heavy, this could knock the heck out of anything, but also feel to me like