Antique Iron Tassel-Shaped Gate Weight bathroom accessories I purchased this piece from

I purchased this piece from an estate in Boston that included a wonderful mix of interesting antique and mid-century objects collected through travels around the world

this is a perfect piece to add to the everyday mix

and I've gone back and forth on whether it a straight photo or a trick one--and am still not entirely sure

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though certainly there is a “right” way to assemble him

Antique Iron Tassel-Shaped Gate Weight bathroom accessories I purchased this piece fromI think old cast iron gate weights are excellent objects and a fun thing to collect, with a lot of variety to tassel shaped ones of this sort; I believe this one probably 3rd quarter 19th century. A weight like this would have been hung from from a chain, most commonly on a garden gate, functioning as a counterweight to make the gate close on its own. The transformation of the form of a silk curtain tassel into a solid iron one makes it feel like