Antique Booted Leg Threaded Finial or Pull (Doubles as a Pipe Tamper!) jacks set Julian Weir

Julian Weir

with plenty of glue stain around the edges of the drawing and scattered stains

and certainly no other quite like this one

and I'm pretty fussy about the ones I like

Pure delight to find this the other day in Concord

Antique Booted Leg Threaded Finial or Pull (Doubles as a Pipe Tamper!) jacks set Julian WeirAt first I thought this was a pipe tamper, but there is a threaded opening at the thigh end, so I am pretty certain it was made as a finial or perhaps even a cabinet pull. (With a little searching, I find 19th c. cane handles in a very similar form and manner.) Wonderfully detailed boot, with eye holes and laces up the front, and dots around the perimeter of the sole, too, and then this excellent tightly belted garter. No mark that I can see, mixed