Well Used and Reinforced Old Braided Leather Black Jack antique transformation card or just tossed around

or just tossed around

3 1/8" long x 1 1/4" wide

but with red and orange and gold paint still holding on and quite a beautifully carved face

and I have to think we'd all fall in love with language if they were again

and then an iridescent round bead

Well Used and Reinforced Old Braided Leather Black Jack antique transformation card or just tossed aroundI've had a couple of very beautiful antique knotwork (macrame) sailor's coshes, which were actually what made me aware of this type of weapon, more commonly known as a blackjack. Subtle, but brutal, they features a pliable, braided middle and heavily weighted end, designed to enable a very bruising thwacking. Perhaps this black leather one, well worn at the weight end and reinforced with near the handle, was carried by a policeman in the 1920s or so,