Poetic (and Anthropomorphic) 19th Century Wooden Bootjack with Hanging Hole Worn Through antique parcheesi very heavy for its size

very heavy for its size so great as a paperweight

Surface cracks (more pronounced in photos than in person) small ding and some flaws indigenous to the stone and to the carving as documented

though it seems it also could be an apple

which would be the point

as marked on one side of the brass end

Poetic (and Anthropomorphic) 19th Century Wooden Bootjack with Hanging Hole Worn Through antique parcheesi very heavy for its sizeFound in southern Maine this week, I think this is really beautiful, and quite poetic, too. It is a 19th century bootjack, which was used so much that the hanging hole at the narrow end wore all the way through, leaving that open curve. I love the primitive elegance of the resulting form, which also reads like a body, arms (or open mouth, or claw) extending from one end, legs from the other. And turn it over, there's a face! The wood itself shows a