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Iron Studded French Boules/Petanque Ball with Cross Pattern, c. 1880s faux eggs They are in like new

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Description

They are in like new condition and very sweet

There is pencil writing on both sides of the slide tip lid of the box

right down to the fact that he probably lost a pipe along the way

the bottom half reveals a rim of blue-green naturally dyed ash splint

It will sit or kneel on its own in various positions

Iron Studded French Boules/Petanque Ball with Cross Pattern, c. 1880s faux eggs They are in like newA beauty. I've found one or two of these over the years but it has been quite a while. It is a French petanque ball (petanque a version of boules), and is an early one, c. 1880s; they don't make iron studded ones like this anymore! From what I have learned about examples like this, the interior of the ball is likely olive wood, which was hand shaped and sanded, and then the square iron nails were hammered in one by one, with each nail hole precisely

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