SOLD Excellent Five Pound Civil War Era (Date Stamped) Iron Horse Tether with Cross hand-coiled but everything is done by

but everything is done by hand

To my eye quite a wonderful child produced creation

with the caveat that it be handed around to others on their birthdays to temporarily wield

What I love about this snapshot

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SOLD Excellent Five Pound Civil War Era (Date Stamped) Iron Horse Tether with Cross hand-coiled but everything is done byI really tried to walk away from this one, thinking I really did not need a 5 pound iron horse tether, but between the five sided form and the cross and the italic font of that 5, it was just too good and satisfying as an object to let go. And would make a good doorstop, or tether for the dog, now. All the more I was delighted to turn it over while photographing it to find a date stamped (impressed) at the center, 186_ (I believe 1864.) And two