SOLD Gorgeous Large Primitive Mallet with Five Fat Iron Nails and Name on Handle John J. Ivory but I really like this

but I really like this drawing a lot—I keep looking at it

) that really makes it a gem

Plus this wonderfully obsessive pinprick pattern covering every inch of the surface

but to me it just makes them feel all the more as if they spent the past 60 or 70 years in a glass walled modernist house

issued as a promotional deck by the Sandusky Cement Co--a nationally known cement company founded in 1892

SOLD Gorgeous Large Primitive Mallet with Five Fat Iron Nails and Name on Handle John J. Ivory but I really like thisAnother 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